California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
Deletions are cases that are to be, or have been deleted from the database.
Delete any duplicate records if a case is found to have been abstracted and sent to the regional or central registry more than once.
Delete a previously reported case if subsequent evidence disproves the presence of cancer, or if what was thought to be a new primary cancer is later found to be a manifestation of an earlier primary cancer.
All deletions must be reported to the regional or central registry.