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First Course of Therapy/Hormone Therapy--Thyroid: Is Thyrogen (thyrotropin alpha) coded as hormone therapy when a patient is given Thyrogen as part of planned 2-day Thyrogen Stimulated I-131 treatment for a papillary or follicular cancer? See Discussion.

First course of treatment--Immunotherapy:  Should Rituxan be coded to immunotherapy?  See discussion.

First Course of Treatment/Hormone Therapy--Breast: Is hormone therapy (HT) prescribed for invasive ductal carcinoma of the right breast coded as treatment for lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) of the left breast even though the treatment plan for the LCIS was documented as surveillance? See Discussion.

First Course of Treatment/Other Therapy: Where do you code Optune TTF therapy? What needs to be included in the text portion to document this treatment?

First course of treatment/Radiation therapy--Kidney: Patient has a CT-guided biopsy of a right renal mass with procedure details under the Interventional Radiology Procedure Note stating "Gelfoam tract embolization." Is this particular embolization treatment?

First Course of Treatment/Surgery of Primary Site--Corpus uteri: Do you code total hysterectomy or radical hysterectomy when a specimen indicates the uterus, cervix, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and right and left parametrium were resected, but shows no portion of the vagina. See Discussion.

First Course of Treatment/Surgery of Primary Site--Melanoma: How do you code UVB therapy treatment for melanoma?

First course of treatment: What is the correct code to use for allogenic stem cell transplant?

First course teatment/Surgery of Primary Site: Is microwave ablation (using heat not alcohol) coded to a surgery code? See Discussion.

First Course Therapy/Neoadjuvant Treatment:  How are Neoadjuvant Therapy--Clinical Response and Neoadjuvant Therapy--Treatment Effect coded when the neoadjuvant therapy was not completed? Does the entire course of neoadjuvant therapy need to be completed before we can code these fields? See Discussion.