Alternate Name Item# Length Source of Standard Column #
2620 1000 NPCR 13765-14764

Description
Text area for manual documentation of information regarding treatment of the tumor being reported with beam radiation.

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:
Item name
Date of Initial RX--SEER
Date of 1st Crs RX--CoC
RX Summ--Radiation
RX Summ--Surg/Rad Seq
Reason For No Radiation
RX Date--Radiation
Rad Regional RX Modality
RX Hosp--Radiation
RX Date Radiation Ended
RX Summ--Rad to CNS
Rad--No of Treatment Vol
Rad--Regional Dose cGy
Rad Treatment Volume
Rad Location of RX
Rad Boost RX Modality
Rad Boost Dose cGy

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