Name	Value
NAME	PRIMARY CANCER STATUS CODE
DESCRIPTION	This file contains a superset of the DAM Cancer Status Codes for use in identifying tumor status at follow-up on the ONCOLOGY PRIMARY File (#165.5). The extended codes (4-7) help the registrar to record more completely the overall cancer status of an expired patient. This file comes with data, which overwrite the site's data. It is not recommended that sites modify this file. This file is referenced directly by routine ONCOCOFA.

Name

Value

NAME

PRIMARY CANCER STATUS CODE

DESCRIPTION

This file contains a superset of the DAM Cancer Status Codes for use
in identifying tumor status at follow-up on the ONCOLOGY PRIMARY File 
(#165.5).  The extended codes (4-7) help the registrar to record more 
completely the overall cancer status of an expired patient.
 
This file comes with data, which overwrite the site's data.  It is not
recommended that sites modify this file.
 
This file is referenced directly by routine ONCOCOFA.

PRIMARY CANCER STATUS CODE (164.42) FILE (1)