Alternate Name Item # Length Source of Standard Implemented Year Implemented Version Retired Year Retired Version Column #
2852 1 AJCC 2010 12 1000 - 1000
Description
The presence of metastatic brain disease at diagnosis is an independent prognostic indicator, and it is used by Collaborative Staging to derive TNM-M codes and SEER Summary Stage codes for some sites.
Rationale
The presence of metastatic brain disease at diagnosis is an independent prognostic indicator, and it is used by Collaborative Staging to derive TNM-M codes and SEER Summary Stage codes for some sites.
Codes (See the most current version of the Collaborative Stage Data Collection System (http://cancerstaging.org),13 for rules and site-specific codes and coding structures.)
Note: This includes only the brain, not spinal cord or other parts of the central nervous system.