California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Discovered by Screening

IDENTIFIERS

CCR-ID

NAACCR ID

E1618

None. State Requestor

DESCRIPTION

Used to track which cancer cases were first diagnosed via screening programs. If this information is not available, the field may be left blank (defaults to 9). Stored in EUREKA. Transmit from DoD fields.

LEVELS

Admissions

LENGTH

1

ALLOWABLE VALUES

1

No (discovered by some other method such as symptomatic patient)

2

Routine screening exam (e.g., routine screening mammogram in asymptomatic patient)

3

State-sponsored screening program

4

Nationally-sponsored screening program

5

Other type of screening (e.g., American Cancer Society screening project)

8

Screening, NOS

9

Unknown if via screening (default)

Blank = Cases diagnosed prior to January 1, 2006.

SOURCE

If blank and Date of Diagnosis year is 2006 or later, then convert to 9.

UPDATE

If blank and Date of Diagnosis year is 2006 or later, then convert to 9.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

No

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

7/05

New data item for 2006 (storage only-Column #6053). Transmitted from DoD fields.