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name

PRIMARY CANCER STATUS CODE

number

164.42

location

^ONCO(164.42,

description

This file contains a superset of the DAM Cancer Status Codes for use in identifying tumor status at follow-up on the ONCOLOGY PRIMARY File (#165.5). The extended codes (4-7) help the registrar to record more completely the overall cancer status of an expired patient. This file comes with data, which overwrite the site's data. It is not recommended that sites modify this file. This file is referenced directly by routine ONCOCOFA.

Fields

#	Name	Location	Type	Details	Index	Description
.001	number		11			This is the numeric code assigned by ACoS.
.01	description(+)	0;1	FREE TEXT		B	This is the description corresponding to the numeric code.
1	dam equivalent	0;2	POINTER	164.42		This is the equivalent code from the Data Acquisition Manual for cancer status codes that do not conform to DAM.
2	short description	0;3	FREE TEXT			This field contains brief text to facilitate multi-columnar displays.