California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
This item is required if available by the CCR. This field has been added for the purpose of tracking which cancer cases were first diagnosed via screening programs. If this information is not available, the field may be left blank. It is an existing optional data item as part of the Department of Defense Data Set and will be collected and transmitted from facilities completing the Department of Defense Data Set.
Code |
Description |
0 |
No (discovered by some other method such as symptomatic patient) |
1 |
Routine screening exam (e.g. routine screening mammogram in asymptomatic patient) |
2 |
Reporting facility screening program (targeted to a particular cancer) |
3 |
State-sponsored screening program |
4 |
Nationally-sponsored screening program |
5 |
Other type of screening (e.g., American Cancer Society screening project) |
9 |
Unknown if via screening (default) |