Alternate Name Item # Length Source of Standard Column #
Date Radiation Started (CoC)
RX Date--Radiation
1210 8 CoC 1486 - 1493
Description
Records the date on which radiation therapy began at any facility that is part of the first course of treatment. See Chapter X for date format. Use RX DATE RADIATION FLAG [1211] if there is no appropriate or known date for this item.
 
Formerly RX Date--Radiation
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.