Alternate Name Item # Length Source of Standard Column #
2630 1000 NPCR 14765 - 15764
Description
Text area for manual documentation of information regarding treatment of the tumor being reported with radiation other than beam radiation. This includes brachytherapy and systemic radiation therapy.
Rationale
Text documentation is an essential component of a complete electronic abstract and is heavily utilized for quality control and special studies. Text is needed to justify coded values and to document supplemental information not transmitted within coded values. High-quality text documentation facilitates consolidation of information from multiple reporting sources at the central registry.

The text field must contain a description that has been entered by the abstractor independently from the code(s). If cancer abstraction software generates text automatically from codes, the text cannot be utilized to check coded values. Information documenting the disease process should be entered manually from the medical record and should not be generated electronically from coded values.

Instructions Note: For abstracting software that allows unlimited text, NAACCR recommends that the software indicate to the abstractor the portion of the text that will be transmitted to the central registry.

Suggestions for text:
Data Item(s) to be verified/validated using the text entered in this field
After manual entry of the text field, ensure that the text entered both agrees with the coded values and clearly justifies the selected codes in the following fields:

Item name

Item number

Date Initial RX SEER

1260

Date 1st Crs RX CoC

1270

RX Summ--Radiation

1360

RX Summ--Surg/Rad Seq

1380

Reason For No Radiation

1430

RX Date Radiation

1210

Rad Regional RX Modality

1570

RX Hosp--Radiation

690

RX Date Rad Ended

3220

RX Summ--Rad to CNS

1370

Rad--No of Treatment Vol

1520

Rad--Regional Dose cGy

1510

Rad Treatment Volume

1540

Rad Location of RX

1550

Rad Boost RX Modality

3200

Rad Boost Dose cGy

3210