California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals
Always base coding on the site-specific schemes presented in the Summary Staging Guide for the Cancer Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Reporting (SEER) Program, which is available as a separate publication or as Book 6 of the Self Instructional Manual for Tumor Registrars.
Instructions in Section V.3.4.2, Section V.5.9, Section V.5.10, and Section V.5.11 are provided for guidance only.
The codes are:
Code |
Description |
0 |
In situ |
1 |
Localized |
2 |
Regional, direct extension only |
3 |
Regional, lymph nodes only |
4 |
Regional, direct extension and lymph nodes |
5 |
Regional, NOS |
7 |
Distant metatases or systemic disease (remote) |
9 |
Unstageable (stage cannot be determined from available information) |
Blank |
Not done |