California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals
Cancer registries use multiple coding applications and manuals to abstract data. These coding applications direct how and what patient and cancer data is to be collected.
Cancer “Staging” is a common language developed by medical professionals to communicate information about cancer to others. It describes the severity of an individual’s cancer based on the extent at the original tumor (the “site”), and how far the cancer has spread.