California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
Hormone Therapy is a form of systemic therapy that works to add, block or remove hormones from the body to slow or stop the growth of cancer cells. Report the administration of hormones, anti-hormones, or steroids to attack cancer tissue by changing the patient's hormone balance.
Record surgery performed for hormonal effect (such as castration) and radiation for hormonal effect for breast and prostate cancers only.
When steroids are combined with chemotherapy, record their use, in addition to reporting the chemotherapy in the chemotherapy section.
SEER*Rx is the downloadable, interactive antineoplastic drug database that replaces SEER Self-Instructional Manual Book 8, Antineoplastic Drugs.
The software can be downloaded from the SEER*Rx Web Site.