Date of initiation of systemic therapy that is part of the first course of treatment. Systemic therapy includes the administration of chemotherapy agents, hormone agents, biological response modifiers, bone marrow transplants, stem cell harvests, and surgical and/or radiation endocrine therapy. See page 81 for date format. Collecting dates for each treatment modality allows the sequencing of multiple treatments and aids in the evaluation of time intervals from diagnosis to treatment and from treatment to recurrence... NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary Version 11
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Date 1st systemic treatment
property
TmStp = Time Stamp—Date and Time
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
Qn = Quantitative: The result of the test is a numeric value that relates to a continuous numeric scale. Reported either as an integer, a ratio, a real number, or a range. The test result value may optionally contain a relational operator from the set {<=, <, >, >=}. Valid values for a quantitative test are of the form "7", "-7", "7.4", "-7.4", "7.8912", "0.125", "<10", "<10.15", ">12000", 1-10, 1:256
method
Additional Names
short name
CA; Date and time; First; Misc; Miscellaneous; Oncology; Other; Point in time; QNT; Quan; Quant; Quantitative; Random; Spec; Time stamp; Timestamp; To be specified in another part of the message; TUMOR REGISTRY(NAACCR); Tx; Unspecified
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