California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals
This data item is coded in the "Transplant/Endocrine Procedure" field see Section VI.7. For reporting purposes, endocrine surgery is defined as the total surgical removal of an endocrine gland (both glands or all of a remaining gland in the case of paired glands). Record endocrine surgery for treatment of cancer of the breast or prostate only. The procedures are:
If tumor tissue is present in a gland removed in the course of endocrine therapy, record the procedure as surgical treatment also.