California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

APPENDIX #20B SITE/SURGERY OF PRIMARY SITE EDITS

2003 Surgery Codes, Consolidation Rules, and Site Edits

Surgery of Primary Site: Codes and Consolidation Rules

(Cases diagnosed on or after January 1, 2003)

To consolidate a new surgery to the primary site code against the existing summary code, follow this procedure:

1. If the two surgery codes are the same, then do nothing and stop here. Otherwise go on to step 2.

2. Find the applicable site range row in the Site/Surgery Hierarchy Table that follows.

3. If either surgery code is missing from this row, then do nothing and stop here. Otherwise, go on to step 4.

4. Determine the associated column number (within this row) for each surgery code being compared.

If the new surgery code was found in a higher column number than the existing summary code, then replace the summary code with the new code.  Otherwise, do nothing and stop here.

Click here to view the Site-Surgery Hierarchy table of 4/26/2011 (lowest to highest and select the SiteSurgeryHeirarchy tab)

Site/Surgery of Primary Site Edits

This edit is skipped if Histologic Type ICD-O-3 is empty.

This edit is skipped if Type of Report Source = 7 (DCO).

The valid RX Summ--Surg Prim Site codes for each Primary Site are specified in Appendix B of the FORDS Manual-2003.

Exceptions are as follows:

For all sites, if Histologic Type ICD-O-3 = 9750, 9760-9764, 9800-9820, 9826, 9831-9920, 9931-9964, 9980-9992, then RX Summ--Surg Prim Site must = 98.

If Primary Site = C420, C421, C423, or C424, then RX Summ--Surg Prim Site must = 98, Unknown and ill-defined sites (C760-C768, C809) must also = 98.

Click here to view the Site-Surgery of Primary Site Edits table and select the SiteSurgeryPrimarySiteEdits tab.

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