California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

IF517: CS SSF 18, MerkelCell Schemas

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California Hospital Transmit

Eureka Admission Level

Eureka Tumor Level

Fields

Primary Site  [NAACCR #400]

Histologic Type ICD-O-3  [NAACCR #522]

Behavior Code ICD-O-3  [NAACCR #523]

CS Site-Specific Factor 18  [NAACCR #2871]

CS Lymph Nodes [NAACCR# 2830]

RX Summ--Scope Reg LN Sur [NAACCR# 1292]

Regional Nodes Positive [NAACCR# 820]

CS Site-Specific Factor25  [NAACCR #2879]

Message

  1. IF 517: Conflict among schema, CS Site-Specific Factor 18 (value) and CS Lymph Nodes (value)
  2. IF 517: Conflict among schema, CS Site-Specific Factor 18 (value) and Regional Nodes Positive (value)
  3. IF 517: Conflict among schema, CS Site-Specific Factor 18 (value) and RX Summ--Scope Reg LN Sur (value)

Specification

This edit verifies that for cases coded using the MerkelCellPenis, MerkelCellScrotum, MerkelCellSkin, and MerkelCellVulva schemas, CS Site-Specific Factor 18 (Extracapsular Extension of Regional Lymph Nodes), RX Summ--Scope Reg LN Sur, and CS Lymph Nodes are coded consistently.

 

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

  1. CS Site-Specific Factor 18 is blank or 988
  2. CS Lymph Nodes is blank
  3. RX Summ--Scope Reg LN Sur is blank
  4. Regional Nodes Positive is blank
  5. Behavior Code ICD-O-3 = 0 (benign) or 1 (borderline)
  6. CS schema is invalid

 

This edit first determines the 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 MerkelCellPenis, MerkelCellScrotum, MerkelCellSkin, or MerkelCellVulva:

  1. If CS Tumor Size/Ext Eval = 2 or 8 (codes indicating autopsy):
    If RX Summ--Scope Reg LN Sur = 0 (none),
    then CS Site-Specific Factor18 must = 000 (nodes not examined pathologically) or 999 (unknown).

  2. If CS Site-Specific Factor18 = 000 or 010 (nodes negative on routine exam and IHC or unknown if IHC)
    then

    A. Regional Nodes Positive must = 00 (all nodes examined negative) or 98 (no nodes examined).

    B. If CS schema is MerkelCellPenis:

CS Lymph Nodes must be one of the following:

000 (no regional lymph node involvement)

420 (in-transit metastasis WITHOUT regional lymph node involvement)

999 (unknown)

 

    If CS schema is MerkelCellScrotum:

CS Lymph Nodes must be one of the following:

000 (no regional lymph node involvement)

400 (in-transit metastasis WITHOUT regional lymph node involvement)

999 (unknown)

 

    If CS schema is MerkelCellVulva:

CS Lymph Nodes must be one of the following:

000 (no regional lymph node involvement)

520 (in-transit metastasis WITHOUT regional lymph node involvement)

999 (unknown)

 

    If CS schema is MerkelCellSkin:

CS Lymph Nodes must be one of the following:

000 (no regional lymph node involvement)

400 (in-transit metastasis WITHOUT regional lymph node involvement)

480 (stated as N2 [NOS] with no other information on regional lymph nodes

999 (unknown)

  1. If CS Site-Specific Factor18 = 020, 090, 100, 200, or 300, indicating positive nodes including ITC, then
    CS Lymph Nodes must not = 000 (no regional lymph node involvement) or 999 (unknown).

Historical Changes

 

In the SEER*Edits software, the title of this edit is: IF323

2011

Data Item Changes: New edit from NAACCR v12.1.

10/20/11
  1. Updated to skip if CS SSF 18 is 988.
  2. Updated to also allow codes indicating "in-transit metastasis without regional lymph node involvement", "stated as N2 [NOS] with no other information on regional lymph nodes", and "unknown", when checking CS Lymph Nodes for "no regional lymph node involvement".

That is, for CS SSF 18 of 000 or 010:

If schema is MerkelCellPenis, CS Lymph Nodes must = 000, 420, or 999.

If schema is MerkelCellScrotum, CS Lymph Nodes must = 000, 400, or 999.

If schema is MerkelCellVulva, CS Lymph Nodes must = 000, 520, or 999.

If schema is MerkelCellSkin, CS Lymph Nodes must = 000, 400, 480, or 999.

  1. Added logic to check that Reg Nodes Pos = 00 or 98 if CS Lymph Nodes is 000 or 01.
  2. Deleted logic that requires CS SSF 18 to be 988.

2013

Data Item Changes: If CS Tumor Size/Ext Eval = 2 or 8 (codes indicating autopsy), the following logic is skipped: If RX Summ--Scope Reg LN Sur = 0, then CS Site-Specific Factor18 must = 000 or 999.

04/2014

Function call to the CS Dynamic Link Library updated to call "CStage0205.dll" instead of "CStage.dll."