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Cancer treatment—surgery target site, topography code (ICD-O-3) ANN.N

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Definition

The target site of cancer-directed surgery performed during the initial course of treatment for cancer, as represented by an ICD-O-3 code.

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Cancer treatment—surgery target site, topography code (ICD-O-3) ANN.N

Comments

Guide for use:

The target site is collected for all cancer-directed surgery performed during the initial course of treatment. The initial course of treatment includes all treatments administered to the patient from diagnosis and before disease progression or recurrence.

Cancer-directed surgery refers to all surgery that destroys or modifies cancer tissue anywhere in the body.

Cancer-directed surgery may be palliative, (to control symptoms, alleviate pain, or make the patient more comfortable), or curative.

Target sites for biopsies that remove the entire tumour and/or leave only microscopic margins are to be recorded here.

All sites or regions targeted for cancer-directed surgery during the initial course of treatment should be recorded. There may be more than one site targeted for treatment. For example, the primary tumour site and the site of a distant metastasis may receive cancer-directed surgery as part of the initial course of treatment.

The target site for radiotherapy is collected as a separate item.

Comments:
This is collected to identify which anatomical structures are targeted by surgery and is useful in evaluating patterns of care and patient outcomes.

References

American College of Surgeons 1998. Standards of the Commission on Cancer: Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS), Volume II. Commission on Cancer
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