California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Multiplicity Counter

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1079

446

OWNER

SEER

DESCRIPTION

This data item is used to count the number of individual reportable tumors (multiplicity) that are present at the time of diagnosis or the number of reportable tumors that occur within one year of the original diagnosis reported as a single primary using the SEER, IARC, or Canadian Cancer Registry multiple primary rules.

LEVELS

Tumors, Admissions

LENGTH

2

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er288 Multiplicity Counter

00-89, 99, blank

Codes

00

No primary tumor identified.

01

One tumor only

02

Two tumors present bilateral ovaries involved with cystic carcinoma.

03

Three tumors present

04-87

Respective number of tumors present

88

Information on multiple tumors not collected/not applicable for this site

89

Multicentric, multifocal, number unknown.

99

Unknown if multiple tumors; not documented.

Blank

Information not collected for this diagnosis date - Year of Date of Diagnosis is prior to 2007 or 2013 and later.

SOURCE

Upload with no conversion.

UPDATE

List for Review

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

IF741 Multiplicity Counter, Date of Diagnosis

IF742 Multiplicity Counter, Date of Multiple Tumors

IF786 Multiplicity Counter, Lymphoma-Leukemia-Unk Site

IF828 Multiplicity Cntr, Mult Tum Rpt as One Prim

HISTORICAL CHANGES

8/15/06:

New data item for 2007.

2/20/08:

Changed Update spec to List for Review (was Manual) so discrepancies are reflected in Conflict table. Added IF #786 and 787.

11/2008:

Removed IF #787 (Multiplicity Counter, Thyroid Schema) due to removal from NAACCR metafile.

2/2009:

Added IF #828.

3/14/2011:

For 2011 data changes, added codes 00 and 89 and modified text for codes 02 and 99.

03/2015

Clarified that blank is allowed when year of Date of Diagnosis is prior to 2007 or 2013 and later.