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References:

#1: SEER Program Code Man, 3rd Ed, F-34. Appendix F

#2: 2004 SEER Manual, C-607

Question:

Surgery of Primary Site--Bladder: Do we code "random bladder biopsies" as an excisional biopsy (27) or as no cancer directed surgery (00) even if the only involvement mentioned on the pathology reports is "focal carcinoma in situ"?

Discussion:

Answer:

Code the Surgery of Primary Site field to 00 [None; no surgery of primary site] when only random biopsy procedures are performed on the bladder.

Cancer Site Category:

Bladder

Data Item Category:

Surgery of Primary Site

Other Category:

N/A

Year:

2002