QLD Cancer Register Notification

Populated cancer notifications to the Queensland Cancer Register (QCR). Notification of cancer is mandatory under the Public Health Act 2005 (Qld) for public and private hospitals, pathology laboratories and diagnostic imaging practices; hospital, pathology and imaging notifications and the extracts sent through the QCR secure transfer portal name the patient and carry the tumour details - date of diagnosis, primary site, morphology / histology, behaviour, grade, stage and laterality, and the basis of diagnosis. Boundary: notifiable communicable condition reports belong to au-qld-notifiable-condition-report; pathology reports in general to global-top500-327-pathology-reports; perinatal and termination of pregnancy records to au-qld-perinatal-termination-of-pregnancy-record.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: Queensland Cancer Register and cancer notification wording is specific, and enforce tiers need a populated patient field and a populated tumour field. "QCR" is also an unrelated acronym (quality or change request), which lacks tumour fields and stays at 65. Hospital extracts sent as headerless CSV files are not covered.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: Public Health Act 2005 (Qld), Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), NDB Scheme (Cth)
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701, QGISCF
Data categories: phi, health, pii
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:Queensland\s+Cancer\s+Register|QCR|cancer\s+(?:notification|regist(?:ry|er)\s+notification)|notification\s+of\s+cancer|Queensland\s+Oncology\s+Repository)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

date of diagnosis, primary site, morphology, histopathology, multidisciplinary team, Public Health Act

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Cancer notification - Queensland Cancer Register Patient: Jordan Teston DOB: 09/09/1961 Date of diagnosis: 22/09/2026 Primary site: C18.7 Sigmoid colon Morphology: 8140/3 Adenocarcinoma NOS Basis of diagnosis: Histopathology of primary tumour Multidisciplinary team review booked for 30/09/2026. — 85 tier - QCR notification with patient, diagnosis date, primary site, morphology and histopathology / MDT context
Notification of cancer Patient name: Riley Teston URN: 778120 Tumour site: Left breast, upper outer quadrant Grade: 2 Laterality: Left Notifying pathology laboratory: Teston Pathology Services — 85 tier - pathology cancer notification with patient, tumour site, grade, laterality and pathology laboratory context
Cancer notification form Patient: Morgan Teston Date of diagnosis: 01/10/2026 — 75 tier - cancer notification with patient and date of diagnosis only

Should not match

Hospital notifier guidelines: this guideline explains how to submit a cancer notification to the Queensland Cancer Register, including primary site, morphology and date of diagnosis fields, within 120 days. — QCR notifier guideline (65 at most)
Queensland Cancer Register statistics: 33,500 new cancers were diagnosed in Queensland in 2024, with prostate, breast and colorectal cancer the most common. — Aggregate cancer statistics (65 at most)
Cancer notification form Patient: ____________________ Date of diagnosis: __/__/____ Primary site: ____________________ Morphology: ____________________ — Blank notification form (65 at most)
QCR 4521 (quality change request) approved Owner: Facilities Site: Building 3 loading dock — Unrelated QCR acronym with populated fields but no patient (65 at most)

Known false positives

QCR hospital, pathology and imaging notifier guidelines and technical specifications. Mitigation: No populated patient field, and guideline, technical specification and training framing is excluded from enforce tiers.
Published cancer statistics and Cancer Alliance Queensland reports. Mitigation: Aggregate figures carry no patient field and are excluded as statistics.
Unrelated uses of the acronym QCR. Mitigation: They lack patient and tumour fields and stay at 65.