California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
Pediatric stage group refers to the stage group assigned for the pediatric cancer. This scheme is to be used for the purpose of entering the stage for pediatric patients only.
Pediatric Stage includes patients who are younger than twenty (20) years of age and diagnosed January 1, 1996 or later.
Record the stage assigned by the managing provider.
This scheme is to be used for the purpose of entering the stage for pediatric patients only.
Use Code 88 - not applicable, for patients twenty years of age and older.
Use code 99 for pediatric leukemia cases.
Code |
Description |
1 |
Stage I |
1A |
Stage IA (rhabdomyosarcomas & related sarcomas) |
1B |
Stage IB (rhabdomyosarcomas & related sarcomas) |
2 |
Stage II |
2A |
Stage IIA (rhabdomyosarcomas & related sarcomas) |
2B |
Stage IIB (rhabdomyosarcomas & related sarcomas) |
2C |
Stage IIC (rhabdomyosarcomas & related sarcomas) |
3 |
Stage III |
3A |
Stage IIIA (liver, rhabdo. & related sarcomas, Wilms') |
3B |
Stage IIIB (liver, rhabdo. & related sarcomas, Wilms') |
3C |
Stage IIIC (Wilms' tumor) |
3D |
Stage IIID (Wilms' tumor) |
3E |
Stage IIIE (Wilms' tumor) |
4 |
Stage IV |
4A |
Stage IVA (bone) |
4B |
Stage IVB (bone) |
4S |
Stage IVS (neuroblastoma) |
5 |
Stage V (Wilms' tumor/retinoblastoma) |
A |
Stage A (neuroblastoma) |
B |
Stage B (neuroblastoma) |
C |
Stage C (neuroblastoma) |
D |
Stage D (neuroblastoma) |
DS |
Stage DS (neuroblastoma) |
88 |
Not Applicable (not a pediatric case) |
99 |
Unstaged, Unknown |