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        Alternate Name 
        Item# 
        Length 
        Source of Standard 
        Column # 
     
    
         
        490 
        1 
        SEER/CoC 
        562-562 
     
Description
Code for the best method of diagnostic confirmation of the cancer being reported at any time in the patient's history.
Rationale
Diagnostic confirmation is useful to calculate rates based on microscopically confirmed cancers. Full incidence calculations must also include tumors that are only confirmed clinically. The percentage of tumors that not micropscopically confirmed is an indication of whether case finding is including sources outside of pathology reports.
  Codes 
    
        1 
        Positive histology 
     
    
        2 
        Positive cytology 
     
    
        3 
        Positive histology PLUS - positive immunophenotyping AND/OR positive genetic studies (Used only for hematopoietic and lymphoid neoplasms M-9590/3-9992/3) 
     
    
        4 
        Positive microscopic confirmation, method not specified 
     
    
        5 
        Positive laboratory test/marker study 
     
    
        6 
        Direct visualization without microscopic confirmation 
     
    
        7 
        Radiography and/or other imaging techniques without microscopic confirmation 
     
    
        8 
        Clinical diagnosis only (other than 5, 6, or 7) 
     
    
        9 
        Unknown whether or not microscopically confirmed; death certificate only 
     
    
         
          
     
  Note: Code 3 (used only for hematopoietic and lymphoid neoplasms M-9590/3-9992/3) was adopted for use effective with 2010 diagnoses.
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