Alternate Name Item # Length Source of Standard Column #
Date Chemotherapy Started (CoC)
RX Date--Chemo
1220 8 CoC 1516 - 1523
Description
Date of initiation of chemotherapy that is part of the first course of treatment. See also RX Summ--Chemo [1390]. See Chapter X for date format.

Formerly RX Date--Chemo.
Rationale
The dates on which different treatment modalities were started are used to evaluate whether the treatments were part of first-course therapy and to reconstruct the sequence of first-course treatment modes.
Note: CoC discontinued support of this item from 2003 through 2009.