21968-3

LOINC 2.82

Surgery Cancer

Definition

  • Field for pre-1996 surgery codes for COC and pre-1998 surgery codes for SEER. Surgery codes used 1998 and later can be backward converted into the older codes and the converted value can be stored in this field. See Chapter V, Unresolved Issues, for discussion of COC/SEER differences in coding treatment... NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary Version 11

Component

  • Surgery

Specimen / system

  • Cancer.XXX

Class

  • TUMRRGT

Property

  • Type

Scale

  • Nom

Related names

  • CA; Misc; Miscellaneous; Nominal; Oncology; Other; Point in time; Random; Spec; Surg; To be specified in another part of the message; TUMOR REGISTRY(NAACCR); Typ; Unspecified

Index terms

  • CA
  • Misc
  • Miscellaneous
  • Nominal
  • Oncology
  • Other
  • Point in time
  • Random
  • Spec
  • Surg
  • To be specified in another part of the message
  • TUMOR REGISTRY(NAACCR)
  • Typ
  • Unspecified