CCR Inquiry System:

• CCR Inquiry System (Click here for instructions about navigating this system)

Visual Editing Standards:

• Cover Letter for Visual Editing Standards Packet
• Informational Packet for Cancer Reporting Facilities
• Informational Packet for Cancer Reporting Facilities, Attachment 1: Facility Accuracy Rate Letter Example
• Informational Packet for Cancer Reporting Facilities, Attachment 2: Histogram Example
• Questions and Answers
• Visually Edited Data Items - 2007-Revised 9-20-2007.
• Visually Edited Data Items - 2007
• Visually Edited Data Items - 2004
• Visually Edited Data Items - 2001

Data Standards and Quality Control Memorandums:

NOTE: Refer to your region's cover memo, that accompanied these CCR/DSQC memos, for any other specific instructions.

Summary File DSQC Memos 2000-2003

2008 Memos

• 2008-02: Multiple Primary and Histology Coding Rules
• 2008-01: Coding Embolization.

2007 Memos

• 2007-06: Benign Brain and CNS Multiple Primary and Histology Coding Rules.
• 2007-05: Reportable Benign Schwannomas
• 2007-04: DSQC Memos 2007-01 and 2007-02
• 2007-03: 2007 Data Changes Training Questions
  • General Multiple Primary and Histology Coding Questions
  • Breast--Multiple Primary and Histology Coding Question
  • Colon--Multiple Primary and Histology Coding Question
  • 2007 New Data Items

2006 Memos

• 2006-01: SEER Histology Rules
• 2006-02: Recording Tumor Markers In Collaborative Staging System Site-Specific Factors
  • Attachment: Recording Tumor Markers In Collaborative Staging System Site-Specific Factor
• 2006-03: Reportability - Benign Brain Tumors with an Unknown Year of Diagnosis
• 2006-04: Coding CS Lymph Nodes and SSF 3-5 for Breast Cancer
  • Attachment: Coding Regional Lymph Nodes for Breast Cancer

2005 Memos

• 2005-01: 2004 Data Changes Training Issues/Frequently Asked Questions
• 2005-02: Fine Needle Aspiration of Regional Lymph Nodes
• 2005-03: Unknown Social Security Number
• 2005-04: Melanoma Surgery Code Guidelines - Amended
• 2005-05: SEER*Rx and Drugs Changing Categories

2003 Memos

• 2003-01: Histology Code for Mucinous Adenocarcinoma in a Villograndular Polyp
• 2003-02: Clarification on Surgery of Primary Site-Breast
• 2003-03: Clarification on Multiple Primaries-Breast
• 2003-04: Clarification of ACoS Data Items
• 2003-05: Distribution of documents from SEER Abstactors & Coders Workshop
• 2003-05: Attachment: Brain Tumor Guidelines Draft 2
• 2003-05: Attachment: ICD-0-3 Errata and Clarification
• 2003-05: Attachment: Reason No Surgery Replacement Page
• 2003-05: Attachment: Revised Surgery Code pages for Colon, Breast, and Prostate

2002 Memos

• 2002-01: Reportable In Situ Terms
• 2002-02: Surgical Margin Clarifications for Melanoma: Surgery Codes 40 and 50
  • See 1999 Memos for CCR Guidelines for Coding Melanoma Surgery Codes.
• 2002-03: SEER Prostate Guidelines (for cases dx on or after 1/1/2001)
  • Clarification of Coding Rules for Prostate Cancer--Addendum to SEER EOD, Third Edition
• 2002-04: EOD Lymph Node Summary Field 0 vs 9 Guideline
  • 2002-04 Attachment: EOD Lymph Node Summary Field 0 vs 9 Guidelines
• 2002-05: Revision of Extension Fields for Breast Cancer
  • 2002-05 Attachment: SEER Revision of Extension Fields for Breast Cancer
• 2002-06: Race/Ethnicity Code Documentation (Replaces DSQC #2001-02 & 2001-05)
• 2002-07: SEER Coders & Abstractors Workshop Documents (May 2002)
  • 2002-07 Attachment: Changes to SEER Data Set (effective for cases diagnosed 1/1/03 & forward)
  • 2002-07 Attachment: FDA Oncology Agents Not Listed in SEER Book 8 (effective for cases diagnosed 1/1/02 and forward)
  • 2002-07 Attachment: Determining the Number of Primaries

2001 Memos

• 2001-01: Benign and Uncertain Behavior Intracranial and CNS Tumors (Replaces the list attached to DSQC #2000-12)
  • 2001-01 Attachment: Casefinding Benign and Uncertain Behavior Brain and CNS Tumors--ICD-0-3 Codes
• 2001-02: Race and Ethnicity Code Documentation
• 2001-03: Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia, Grade III
• 2001-04: Pilocytic/Juvenile Astrocytoma
• 2001-05: Race and Ethnicity Code Documentation
• 2001-06: ICD-O-2 to ICD-O-3 Conversion
• 2001-07: SEER Coders and Abstractors Workshop Documents
  • 2001-07 Attachment: ICD-O-3 Errata and Clarifications
  • 2001-07 Attachment: Clarifications for Abstracting and Coding Hematopoietic Diseases
  • 2001-07 Attachment: Coding and Abstracting Guide to the Hematopoietic Diseases (Draft)-This item is obsolete and has been replaced with the SEER book, Abstracting and Coding Guide for the Hematopoietic Diseases (May 2002) [No. T-007] Pub. No. 02-5146. To order go to the SEER website.

2000 Memos

• 2000-01: Prostate Extension Codes 33 & 34
• 2000-02: Guideline: Coding EOD for Non-Surgical Cases
• 2000-03: General VE Guidelines
• 2000-04: Policy: Colonoscopy
• 2000-05: Clarification: Breslow/Clark
• 2000-06: Clarification: Focus, Focal and Foci
• 2000-07: Rescind Guidelines for Coding Prostate Clinical EOD
• 2000-08: Memo from Commission on Cancer
  • 2000-08 Attachment: Memo from Commission on Cancer
• 2000-09: Coding Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Histology
• 2000-10: Errata and Corrections to the Third Edition of Extent of Disease 1988
  • 2000-10 Attachment: Errata and Corrections to Third Edition of Extent of Disease 1988
• 2000-11: Tumor Size for Combined In Situ-Invasive Tumor
• 2000-12: Data Changes for 2001 (ICD-O-3, Benign and Uncertain Behavior Intracranial and CSN Tumors, Borderline Ovarian Cancers
  • 2000-12 Attachment: Screening List for Benign and Uncertain Behavior Brain Tumors
  • 2000-12 Attachment: Casefinding Benign and Uncertain Behavior Brain and CNS Tumors--ICD-O-3 Codes--Obsolete--Refer to 2001-01 Attachment

1999 Memos

• CCR Guidelines for Coding Melanoma Surgery Codes

Geocoding Resources

• U.S. Census Bureau: American FactFinder

Maps:

• MapQuest!
• Vicinity MapBlast!
• Yahoo! Maps

Phone Number and Address Search Engines:

• Finding People on the Internet
• Geographic Nameserver
• Geonames - Querying Canadian Geographical Names
• National Address Zip +4 and Where Did They Go?
• Switchboard
• USPS City State / ZIP Code Associations
• USPS Zip Code Lookup
• WhoWhere - Phone Numbers and Addresses

Reference Sources:

• California Law
• CDC - Data Collection of Primary Central Nervous System Tumors
• Health-related Terminology in Cyberspace (WHO)
• Library of Congress
• Medical Abbreviations - Virtual Hospital
• The Merck Manual
• NCDB - National Cancer Database of ACOS
• National Cancer Institute Health Professional Treatment Information
• PharmInfoNet - Pharmaceutical Information Network
• Reuter's Health Information Service

Regional Statewide Training:

2004 Statewide Data Changes Training Modules

• 2004 Implementation Guidelines: Collaborative Staging and Benign/Borderline Intracranial and CNS Tumors
• Benign Brain Tumor Reporting: 2004 Data Changes
• CANCER REPORTING IN CALIFORNIA: ABSTRACTING AND CODING PROCEDURES FOR HOSPITALS California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume I: (SUMMARY OF YEAR 2004 DATA CHANGES)
• Collaborative Staging Exercise Breast Case
• Collaborative Staging Exercise Colon Case
• Collaborative Staging Exercise Lung Case
• Collaborative Staging Exercise Prostate Case
• Collaborative Staging System California Cancer Registry 2004
• Other 2004 Data Changes
• PROPOSED REVISED RACE CODING RULES Approved by NAACCR Uniform Data Standards Committee October 28, 2003
• Race: What’s new in 2004
• RACE AND NATIONALITY DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE 2000 CENSUS AND BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS Note: Use these lists only when race is not stated but other information is provided in the medical record.

Reporting Cancer in California

• California Cancer Reporting System Standards: Volume I, 2008 (5/2008)(html)
• California Cancer Reporting System Standards: Volume I, 2008 (5/2008)(pdf)
  • Volume I Appendices 2008 (5/2008) (html)
  • Volume I Appendices 2008 (5/2008) (pdf)
  • 2008 Changes and Clarifications to Volume I
  • 2008 Summary of Data Changes - Cancer Reporting in California: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals

• California Cancer Reporting System Standards: Volume I, 2007 (5/2007)(html)
• California Cancer Reporting System Standards: Volume I, 2007 (5/2007)(pdf)
  • Volume I Appendices, 2007 (5/2007) (html)
  • Volume I Appendices, 2007 (5/2007) (pdf)
    • 2007 Changes & Clarifications: Volume I-Amended May 8, 2007
    • 2007 Summary of Data Changes - Cancer Reporting in California: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals

• California Cancer Reporting System Standards: Volume I, 2006 (html)
  • Volume I Appendices, 2006 (html)
  • 2006 Changes and Clarifications: Volume I
  • 2006 Summary of Data Changes - Cancer Reporting in California: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals
• California Cancer Reporting System Standards: Volume I, 7th Edition, 2003-2005
  • 2005 Replacement Pages
  • 2005 Changes and Clarifications: Volume I
  • 2005 Summary of Data Changes - Cancer Reporting in California: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals
  • 2004 Replacement Pages
  • 2004 Changes and Clarifications: Volume I
• California Cancer Reporting System Standards: Volume I - 2003
  • 2003 Surgery Codes
  • 2003 TNM Staging Elements Revised
  • 2003 Palliative Procedures Coding Instructions
  • 2003 Changes and Clarifications
  • 2003 Changes and Clarifications Addendum
• CCR California Hospital Code Numbers Version 1.8.0.8, dated 5/14/08
  • Sorted by Facility Code Number
  • Sorted by Facility Name in Alphabetic Order

• California Cancer Reporting Standards: Volume II - 2008
  • Additions and Changes for 2008 Data items
• California Cancer Reporting Standards: Volume II - 2007, revised 4/12/2007
• California Cancer Reporting Standards: Volume II - 2007, revised 3/15/2007
  • Additions, Changes and Deletions for 2007 Data Items.
• California Cancer Reporting Standards: Volume II - 2006
• California Cancer Reporting Standards: Volume II - 2005

• Software Vendor Approval for California State Reporting (Updated 6/2007)

• California Cancer Reporting System Standards: Volume III - (Latest Updates 6-2-08)

• Physician Reporting Form (Updated 12-13-06)
• Cancer Reporting in California: Reporting procedures for Physicians - Volume IV (Updated 12-13-06)

• Edits (Updated 5/14/2008)

Version 3.7.0

Vital Records:

• Ancestry's Social Security Death Index
• VitalCheck

Registrar Training

2008 Data Changes

• 2008 Data Changes Quiz
• ACOS Inquiry and Response: Selected Inquires -- CS Tumor Size/Extension Evaluation, CS Lymph Nodes Evaluation, CS Metastasis at Diagnosis Evaluation
• Report Identifier Data Items
• Collaborative State Version 01.04.00 Evaluation Fields