California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals
A name suffix is a title that would follow the name in a letter such as Jr, Sr, III, or IV. It is frequently a generation identifier. It helps to distinguish between patients with the same name.
Do not use punctuation.
Leave blank if the patient does not have a name suffix.
Do not use this field to record suffixes such as MD or PhD.