California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Eureka Edits

IF488  CS Lymph Nodes, Nodes Pos, MerkelCell Schemas (CS)

Edit Sets:

California Hospital Transmit

Eureka Admission Level

Eureka Tumor Level

Fields:

Behavior Code ICD-O-3 [NAACCR# 523]

CS Lymph Nodes [NAACCR #2830]

CS Site-Specific Factor 25 [NAACCR #2879]

Histologic Type ICD-O-3 [NAACCR #522]

Primary Site [NAACCR #400]

Regional Nodes Positive [NAACCR #820]

Message:

If CS Lymph Nodes = [value] , then Regional Nodes Positive must not = [value].

Specification:

The purpose of this edit is to compare CS Lymph Nodes and Regional Nodes Positive for cases coded using the MerkelCell schemas.

This edit is skipped if any of the following conditions are true:

• CS Lymph Nodes is empty

• Regional Nodes Positive is empty

• Behavior Code ICD-O-3 = 0 (benign) or 1 (borderline)

• CS schema is invalid

This edit first determines the correct CS schema by doing a function call to the CS Dynamic Link Library (dll). The function call passes Primary Site, Histologic Type ICD-O-3, and CS Site-Specific Factor25 (schema discriminator) to the dll and the CS schema name is returned.

If CS schema is MerkelCellScrotum, MerkelCellSkin, MerkelCellPenis, or MerkelCellVulva:

1. If CS schema is MerkelCellScrotum or MerkelCellSkin:

Then, if CS Lymph Nodes = 320, 340, 350 (evaluated pathologically)

Then Regional Nodes Positive must not = 00 or 98 (codes indicating no nodes positive pathologically)

2. If CS schema is MerkelCellPenis:

Then if CS Lymph Nodes = 120, 140, 150 (evaluated pathologically)

Then Regional Nodes Positive must not = 00 or 98

3. If CS schema is MerkelCellVulva: then if CS Lymph Nodes = 115, 120, 125 (evaluated pathologically),

Then Regional Nodes Positive must not = 00 or 98

Historical Change:

In the SEER*Edits software, the title of this edit is: IF381.