California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
Certain terms indicate an in situ stage. Also see In Situ Coding for Reportable terms indicating “in situ” behavior.
Behavior code ‘2’
Bowen's disease (not reportable for C440-C449)
Clark's level 1 for melanoma (limited to epithelium)
Confined to epithelium
DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ)
Hutchinson's melanotic freckle, NOS (C44_)
Intracystic, non-infiltrating (carcinoma, only)
Intraductal (carcinoma, only)
Intraepidermal, NOS (carcinoma, only)
Intraepithelial Neoplasia, NOS (carcinoma, only), Grade III
AIN III (anal intraepithelial neoplasia)**
DIN 3 (ductal intraepithelial neoplasia 3)**
LIN III (laryngeal intraepithelial neoplasia) **
LIN III (breast lobular intraepithelial neoplasia)*****
LN III (breast lobular neoplasia)*****
PanIN-III (pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia III)***
PeIN III (penile intraepithelial neoplasia III (C60))**
SIN III (squamous intraepithelial neoplasia – excluding cervix)****
VAIN III (vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia (C529))*
VIN III (vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (C51_))*
Intrasquamous
Involvement up to but not including the basement membrane
LCIS (lobular carcinoma in situ)
Lentigo maligna (C44_)
Lobular, noninfiltrating (C50_)(carcinoma, only)
No stromal invasion/involvement
Non-infiltrating (carcinoma, only)
Non-invasive (carcinoma, only)
Papillary, noninfiltrating or intraductal (carcinoma, only)
Precancerous melanosis (C44_)
Preinvasive
Queyrat's erythroplasia (C60_)
Stage 0 (except Paget’s disease (8540/3) of breast and colon or rectal tumors confined to the lamina propria)
* Cases diagnosed 01/1992 and later.
** Cases diagnosed 01/2001 and later.
***Cases diagnosed 01/2004 and later.
****Cases diagnosed 01/01/2014 and later.
*****Cased diagnosed 01/01/2016 and later.