California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
This field captures the patient's religion or creed.
Enter the code for the patient’s identified religion. See appendix G.1 and G.2 for codes.
Use code 99 if the religion is not stated.
These codes and definitions were added for religion, effective with cases diagnosed January 1, 1998 and forward.
Religion codes prior to 1998 were converted.