California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
AJCC TNM Edition Number identifies the Cancer Staging Manual edition used to code the AJCC TNM Stage.
Record the edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual that was used for TNM staging.
The TNM Edition field may not be left blank.
Code |
Description |
00 |
Not staged |
01 |
First edition |
02 |
Second edition |
03 |
Third edition |
04 |
Fourth edition |
05 |
Fifth edition |
06 |
Sixth edition |
07 |
Seventh edition |
88 |
Not applicable (cases do not have an AJCC staging scheme and staging was not done) |
99 |
Unknown |