California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
Use the following codes for recording radiation therapy in the summary field.
Radiation - Regional RX Modality and Radiation - Boost RX Modality, are required to code first course radiation therapy.
Radiation to the brain and CNS for lung and leukemia cases is to be coded in the Radiation – Regional RX Modality and Radiation – Boost RX Modality fields.
These instructions apply to cases diagnosed January 1, 2003 and forward.
See Radioactive Implants for additional information regarding radioactive implants.
Note: CCR does not include codes 7 and 8 in our instructions. We collect this information in the Reason for No Radiation Field. The CoC discontinued collection of this item in 2003 when FORDS was implemented. For CoC, codes 7 and 8 were used for tumors diagnosed before 1996, but should have been converted to 0 in this field and to the appropriate code in the new field Reason for No Radiation [1430]. SEER continues to use codes 7 and 8 for all years. See Chapter V, Unresolved Issues, for further discussion.
Code |
Description |
0 |
None |
1 |
Beam Radiation |
2 |
Radioactive Implants |
3 |
Radioisotopes |
4 |
Combination of 1 with 2 or 3 |
5 |
Radiation, NOS (method or source not specified) |
9 |
Unknown if radiation therapy recommended or given |