California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
The Mets at Diagnosis – Bone data item captures whether bone is an involved metastatic site at the time of diagnosis.
Code information about bone metastasis only (discontinuous or distant) to the bone identified at the time of diagnosis.
NOTE: Bone marrow involvement is NOT coded in this field. See Mets at Diagnosis – Other.
Metastatic involvement may be single (one focus of metastatic disease) or multiple (multiple foci of metastatic disease in the same site or multiple sites).
Information regarding bone involvement may be clinical or pathologic.
Code this field for bone metastasis even if the patient had neoadjuvant (preoperative) systemic therapy, unless it is determined to be disease progression.
Code bone involvement in this field for all solid tumors, Kaposi’s sarcoma, Lymphomas, Unknown primary site and Other and Ill-defined primary sites.
Code this field for Lymphomas of all sites for the histologies (9590-9699, 9702-9727, 9735, 9737-9738, 9811-9818, 9823, 8927, and 9737).
Assign the code that best describes whether the case has bone metastasis at diagnosis.
Use code 0 when the medical record:
Indicates no distant (discontinuous) metastases to the bone. Including:
A negative clinical or pathologic statement
Negative imaging reports
Mentions (discontinuous) metastasis but bone is not stated as the involved site.
Use code 1 when the medical record confirms:
The patient has distant (discontinuous) metastasis and the bone is mentioned as involved.
Bone is the primary and there are metastasis in a different bone(s).
NOTE: Do not code as 1 when bone is the primary with multifocal bone involvement of the same bone.
The patient is diagnosed with an unknown primary (C80.9) and bone is mentioned as a distant metastatic site.
Use code 8 (Not applicable) for the following site/histology combinations for which a code for distant metastasis is not clinically relevant:
ICD-O-3 Site |
ICD-O-3 Histology |
Description |
C000-C809 |
9740-9809, 9840-9992 |
Mast cell, histiocytosis, immunoproliferative, leukemias |
C000-C440, C442-C689, C691-C694, C698-C809 |
9820, 9826, 9831-9834, 9731, 9732, 9734 |
Other hematopietic neoplasm coded to any site except eyelid, conjunctiva, lacrimal gland, orbit, and eye overlapping and NOS |
Use code 9 when the patient is known to have distant metastasis but it cannot be determined whether the distant metastasis include bone.
Code |
Description |
0 |
None; no bone involvement |
1 |
Yes, distant bone metastasis |
8 |
Not Applicable |
9 |
Unknown whether bone is an involved metastatic site Not documented in patient record |