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References:

#1: 2007 SEER Manual, 76

#2: SINQ 20051046

Question:

Diagnostic Confirmation--Leukemia: How is this field coded when the clinician confirms that the diagnosis of CML is based on a combination of the clinical picture and positive cytogenetic studies?

Discussion:

Answer:

Assign code 1 [Positive histology]. For leukemia only, assign code 1 for positive hematologic findings including peripheral blood smears, CBCs and WBCs.

Cytogenetics studies would have been done on blood. Therefore, histology provided diagnostic confirmation as it would with smear, bone marrow, or other special study of blood cells.

Cancer Site Category:

N/A

Data Item Category:

Diagnostic confirmation

Other Category:

N/A

Year:

2006