California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Mets at DX-Distant LN

identifiers

OWNER

SEER

DESCRIPTION

This field identifies whether distant lymph node(s) are an involved metastatic site. The six Mets at DX-Metastatic Sites fields provide information on specific metastatic sites for data analysis.

leveLS

Admissions, Tumors

LENGTH

1

ALLOWABLE VALUES

SOURCE

1. If Date of Diagnosis is less than 2016, then blank out field

2. If Date of Diagnosis is 2016 and greater, then convert non-blank, non-numeric value to 9

uPDATE

Tumor

New Case Consolidation

If all of these conditions are true:

• Any of these conditions are true:

• Admission’s Date of Diagnosis year is 2016-9998

• Tumor’s Date of Diagnosis year is 2016-9998

• Tumor’s Date of Diagnosis year is blank AND the admission’s Date of 1st Contact year is 2016-9998

• Admission’s Date of Diagnosis year is blank AND the admission’s Date of 1st Contact year is 2016-9998

• Admission's value is NOT blank

• Admission and tumor’s values are different

Then list for review.

Admission

Manual Update

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

IF1148: Mets at DX-BBDLLO, HemeRetic

INTERRECord EDITS

N/A

historical changes