Alternate Name Item # Length Source of Standard Implemented Year Implemented Version Retired Year Retired Version Column #
2640 1000 NPCR 15765 - 16764
Description
Text area for manual documentation of information regarding chemotherapy treatment of the reported tumor.
Rationale
Text documentation is an essential component of a complete electronic report 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 reporter independently from the code(s). If 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 software that allows unlimited text, NAACCR recommends that the software indicate to the reporter 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 Hosp--Chemo

700

RX Date Systemic

3230

RX Summ--Tranplnt/Endocr

3250

RX Summ--Chemo

1390

RX Date Chemo

1220

RX Summ--Systemic/Sur Seq

1639