California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
Code |
Description |
|
0 |
None; no cancer-directed surgery of primary site |
|
1 |
Endoscopy, NOS |
|
2 |
|
Not image guided |
3 |
|
Image guided |
4 |
Open, NOS |
|
5 |
|
Not assisted by endoscopy |
6 |
|
Assisted by endoscopy |
9 |
Unknown; not stated; death certificate only |
Code |
Description |
|
00 |
None; no cancer-directed surgery of primary site |
|
10 |
Local tumor destruction, NOS Note: without pathology specimen. |
|
11 |
|
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) |
12 |
|
Electrocautery; fulguration |
13 |
|
Cryosurgery |
14 |
|
Laser Note: No specimen sent to pathology from this surgical event. |
20 |
Local tumor destruction or excision, NOS Note: with pathology specimen. |
|
21 |
|
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) |
22 |
|
Electrocautery |
23 |
|
Cryosurgery |
24 |
|
Laser ablation |
25 |
|
Laser excision |
26 |
|
Polypectomy |
27 |
|
Excisional biopsy Note: Specimen sent to pathology from this surgical event. |
30 |
Simple/partial surgical removal of primary site |
|
40 |
Total surgical removal of primary site |
|
50 |
Surgery stated to be "debulking" |
|
60 |
Radical surgery Note: Partial or total removal of the primary site with an en bloc resection (partial or total removal) of other organs. |
|
90 |
Surgery, NOS |
|
99 |
Unknown if cancer-directed surgery performed; death certificate only |
Code |
Description |
|
0 |
All margins grossly and microscopically negative |
|
1 |
Margins involved, NOS |
|
2 |
|
Microscopic involvement |
5 |
|
Macroscopic involvement |
7 |
Margins not documented |
|
8 |
No cancer-directed surgery of primary site |
|
9 |
Unknown whether margins were involved or negative; death certificate only |
Code |
Description |
0 |
No regional lymph nodes removed |
1 |
Regional lymph nodes removed, NOS |
9 |
Unknown; not stated; death certificate only |
|
Code |
Description |
|
0 |
None; no surgery to other regional or distant sites |
|
1 |
Surgery to other sites or nodes, NOS; unknown if regional or distant |
|
2 |
|
Other regional sites |
3 |
|
Distant lymph nodes |
4 |
|
Distant sites |
5 |
|
Combination of 4 with 2 or 3 |
9 |
Unknown; not stated; death certificate only |
Code |
Description |
9 |
At this time, reconstructive procedures are not being collected for these sites |