Surgery of other regional site(s), distant site(s), or distant lymph node(s) at this facility 98-02 Cancer

Surg other sites 98-02 Cancer

Definition

Records the surgical removal of distant lymph nodes or other tissue(s)/organ(s) beyond the primary site at this facility. This field is to be used for ROADS codes after the ROADS to FORDS conversion. It is also to be used to code Surgery Other Regional/Distant Sites at the reporting facility for all tumors diagnosed before January 1, 2003. The removal of non-primary tissue documents the extent of surgical treatment and is useful in evaluating the extent of metastatic involvement. If central registries wish to study the treatment given at particular hospitals, the hospital-level treatment fields must be used. The summary treatment fields, conversely, combine information across all hospitals that provide first course of treatment for the tumor. Hospital-specific fields allow studies of detailed referral patterns and treatment by type of hospital. Knowing what part of the treatment was given at a particular hospital also helps resolve coding issues. .. NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary Version 11

Surgery of other regional site(s), distant site(s), or distant lymph node(s) at this facility 98-02

CA; Identity or presence; LN; Misc; Miscellaneous; Nominal; Oncology; Other; Othr; Point in time; Random; S prime; Spec; Surg; Surg other sites 98-02; To be specified in another part of the message; TUMOR REGISTRY(NAACCR); Unspecified