Primary Site, Heme Morph, DateDX, Override (SEER)

[Jim Hofferkamp]

The following question was submitted from a Canadian registry testing the call for data edits. I will respond in a reply.

Hi Jim,

Data File : dx2014 cases

When I ran the data file using
• v15 edits , I had 66 errors (We have reviewed these errors, and we know these are true errors or requires override. As a part of our NAACCR submission , we run the NAACCR edits quarterly and edit monster to get the list of errors)

Converted the file thru Northcon
• ran the file via v16 edits , we had 68 errors
• all edits were same as V15 except that the below edit was new and 2 cases were in this
o Primary Site, Heme Morph, DateDX, Override (SEER)
o Site code : C169 and C779 , histology codes for both were 9719

Could this “Primary Site, Heme Morph, DateDX, Override (SEER)” be a newer edit ?
I am using V15 edit file using NAACCR v15_2015Sep04.rmf

This edit is not overridden in the .dat file.

[Jim Hofferkamp]

It looks like the edit was updated just after last year’s call for data. Last year’s call for data was based on the v15 metafile. This edit was updated for v15a. I found the following in the admin notes for the edit.

NAACCR v15A
– Logic fixed so that it will no longer inappropriately pass for 9719: it will now fail whenever Primary Site is not C050-C059, C110-C119, C300-C301, C310-C319

So it looks like the edit is working correctly. Those two cases should be reviewed to confirm that the site/histology is correct.

The original question was submitted by a Canadian registry testing the CFD edits. A second Canadian registry also found some additional cases that were not picked up last year. I did not hear back from any US registries testing the metafile, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up with a few cases that were not identified when they ran their file through the CFD edits last year.

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