Code for summary stage at the initial diagnosis or treatment of the reportable tumor. For hospital registries, COC requires its use in the absence of a defined AJCC classification. For site-specific definitions of categories, see SEER Summary Staging Manual 2000. Summary stage should include all information available through completion of surgery(ies) in the first course of treatment or within 4 months of diagnosis in the absence of disease progression, whichever is longer. Stage information is important when evaluating the effects of cancer control programs. It is crucial in understanding whether changes over time in incidence rates or outcomes are due to earlier detection of the cancers. In addition, cancer treatment cannot be studied without knowing the stage at diagnosis... NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary Version 11
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Stage.summary at Dx 2000 revised
property
Type = Type: The Property Type is used for assays that identify the specific analyte in cases when the baseline presence of the analyte is known.
time
Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
system
Cancer.XXX
scale
Nom = Nominal: Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody.
method
Additional Names
short name
CA; Diagnosis; Misc; Miscellaneous; Nominal; Oncology; Other; Point in time; Random; Spec; SS; SS at Dx 2000 revised; To be specified in another part of the message; TUMOR REGISTRY(NAACCR); Typ; Unspecified
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