California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
This field records the vital status of the patient on the date of last follow-up.
Enter the code representing whether the patient was still alive on the date of last contact.
If a patient with more than one primary has died, be sure to record the fact in all the abstracts.
Code |
Description |
0 |
Dead |
1 |
Alive |