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References:

#1: SEER Program Code Man, 3rd Ed, 133

#2: 2004 SEER Manual, 182-183

Question:

Reason for No Cancer-Directed Surgery--Lung: How do you code this field for a lung primary that presents with metastasis to the bone and brain in which the oncologist's treatment plan includes only radiation and chemotherapy?

Discussion:

Answer:

Code the Reason for No Cancer-Directed Surgery field to 1 [Cancer-Directed Surgery Not Recommended].

Cancer Site Category:

Lung

Data Item Category:

Reason no treatment

Other Category:

N/A

Year:

2000