California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

IF796: CS Lymph Nodes Eval, Nodes Ex

OWNER

California Hospital Transmit

Eureka Admission Level

Eureka Tumor Level

Primary Site [NAACCR #400]

N/A

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

CS Lymph Nodes Eval is blank
Regional Nodes Examined is blank
Behavior Code ICD-O-3 = 0 (benign) or 1 (borderline) and schema is not Brain, CNSOther, or IntracranialGland
CS schema is invalid
CS schema is Appendix, CarcinoidAppendix, Colon, GISTAppendix, GISTColon, GISTRectum, LymphomaOcularAdnexa, MelanomaSkin, MerkelCellSkin, MerkelCellPenis, MerkelCellVulva, MerkelCellScrotum, NetColon, NETRectum,Rectum, Retinoblastoma

If CS Lymph Nodes Eval = 3, 5, or 6, then Regional Nodes Examined must not = 00 (No nodes were examined).

Notes:

CS Lymph Nodes Eval code 3 = Regional lymph nodes removed for examination (removal of at least 1 lymph node) WITHOUT pre-surgical systemic treatment or radiation OR lymph nodes removed for examination, unknown if pre-surgical systemic treatment or radiation performed.
CS Lymph Nodes Eval code 5 = Regional lymph nodes removed for examination WITH pre-surgical systemic treatment or radiation, BUT lymph node evaluation based on clinical evidence.
CS Lymph Nodes Eval code 6 = Regional lymph nodes removed for examination WITH pre-surgical systemic treatment or radiation, and lymph node evaluation based on pathologic evidence.

In the SEER*Edits software, the title of this edit is: IF201.
10/2008	Edit IF #796 added to match New edit - added to NAACCR v11.3 metafile (CS Lymph Node Eval, RX Summ--Scope, Nodes Ex (CS).
2010	Per Data Item Changes, CCR name (CS Reg Node Eval) changed to NAACCR name. Per NAACCR v12.0: Edit name changed from 'CS Reg Nodes Eval, RX Summ--Scope, Nodes Ex (CS)' to 'CS Lymph Nodes Eval, RX Summ--Scope, Nodes Ex (CS)' Data item name changed from 'CS Reg Nodes Eval' to 'CS Lymph Nodes Eval' Modified to get schema name from function call to CS dll. Skipped if CS schema is Appendix, CarcinoidAppendix, Colon, GISTAppendix, GISTColon, GISTRectum, LymphomaOcularAdnexa, MelanomaSkin, MerkelCellSkin, MerkelCellPenis, MerkelCellVulva, MerkelCellScrotum, NetColon, NETRectum,Rectum, Retinoblastoma.
04/2014	Function call to the CS Dynamic Link Library updated to call "CStage0205.dll" instead of "CStage.dll."
08/2014	Per NAACCR v14A, edit name changed from ‘CS Lymph Nodes Eval, RX Summ-Scope, Nodes Ex’ to ‘CS Lymph Nodes Eval, Nodes Ex.’ Edit modified to no longer require RX Summ--Scope Reg LN Sur to not equal 0 when CS Lymph Nodes Eval = 3, 5, or 6. RX Summ--Scope Reg LN no longer checked at all.