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California Cancer Registry Volume I: Data Standards and Data Dictionary Source: Cancer Reporting in California: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals (California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Vol. I), updated May 2007 |
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California Cancer Registry Volume I: Data Standards and Data Dictionary Source: Cancer Reporting in California: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals (California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Vol. I), updated May 2007 |
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A request for the year first seen appears on the Abstract New Case screen. Enter the four digit year during which the patient was first seen at the reporting hospital for diagnosis or treatment of the neoplasm reported in this abstract. For patients seen at the end of the year, use the year of diagnosis as the year first seen for this primary.
Example:A patient is admitted to the reporting hospital in December 1992 and is diagnosed in January 1993. Assigned 1993 as the year first seen for this primary.
NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary entry available
