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References:

SEER Program Code Man, 3rd Ed, 88, 111. January 1998

Question:

Date of Diagnosis/Diagnostic Confirmation: How are these fields coded when a physician statement of diagnosis predates a positive biopsy? See Description.

Discussion:

A mass seen on EGD with negative biopsy 12/28/01. Needle core biopsies 1/14/02 were diagnostic of GIST. Gleevec treatment was initiated 2/02, and in discharge summary 5/27/02, the physician says the GIST was diagnosed on EGD.

Answer:

Code the date of diagnosis as 01/2002. Code the diagnostic confirmation as positive histology. EGD revealed a "mass." Biopsies of the "mass" seen on EGD were negative before January 2002.

Cancer Site Category:

N/A

Data Item Category:

Date of diagnosis, Diagnostic confirmation

Other Category:

N/A

Year:

2003