Solid Tumor Rules/Behavior--Brain and CNS: Why was the Behavior of solitary fibrous tumor (SFT)/hemangiopericytoma, WHO Grade 1 changed from /0 to /1 in the 2025 Solid Tumor Rules (STR) updates? See Discussion.
Race/Spanish Surname or Origin: How are Race 1 and Spanish
Surname or Origin coded for the following race/ethnicity statements: "INDIGENOUS-LATINO/A
OR INDIGENOUS-LATINX" and "FIRST NATIONS"? See Discussion.
Solid Tumor
Rules/Multiple Primaries--Testis: How many primaries and what M Rule applies
when metastatic seminoma is diagnosed greater than 40 years after a left
testicular teratoma with yolk sac tumor and embryonal carcinoma? See
Discussion.
Solid Tumor Rules/Histology--Lung: How is histology coded and which H Rule applies for a lung adenocarcinoma when the greatest percentage of the adenocarcinoma is stated to be, "solid; complex glands (cribriform and fused glands) (50%)"? See Discussion.
Immunotherapy/Other
Therapy--Heme & Lymphoid Neoplasms: Is the elimination of immunosuppression
treatment coded as other treatment? An example is when a post-transplant
patient develops a malignant myeloproliferative neoplasm that subsides when
immunosuppression drugs are stopped.
Sequence Number--Central/Reportability--Heme &
Lymphoid Neoplasms: Is a hematolymphoid disease included in the sequencing if it
was not reportable at the time of diagnosis?
Diagnostic Confirmation--Heme & Lymphoid Neoplasms: How
is Diagnostic Confirmation coded for hematopoietic and lymphoid neoplasms (heme)
when immunophenotyping, genetics, etc. confirm the diagnosis.
Reportability/Behavior:
Our registry collects some borderline (behavior /1) cases that are not
reportable to SEER or any other standard setters. Can we assign a behavior code
of /2 to these cases?
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