California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Tumor ID

IDENTIFIERS

This data item is not in the exchange record (Volume II, Appendices)

DESCRIPTION

Number automatically assigned by the CCR (Eureka system) to uniquely identify each tumor.

LEVELS

Tumor

Admission

LENGTH

8

ALLOWABLE VALUES

1-99999999

SOURCE

Generated automatically when tumor record was migrated or when a new tumor record is created.

UPDATE

Tumor ID may be updated automatically at the admission level if two tumors are merged or if an admission is unlinked and relinked. No update is possible at the tumor level.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES