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Cancer treatment—surgical procedure date, DDMMYYYY

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Definition

The date on which a cancer-directed surgical procedure was performed during the initial course of treatment for cancer, expressed as DDMMYYYY.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Cancer treatment—surgical procedure date, DDMMYYYY

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Date DDMMYYYY ".
Data Type Date/Time
Format DDMMYYYY
Maximum character length 8

Comments

Guide for use:

The surgical procedure date is collected for all cancer-directed surgery delivered to the patient during initial treatment for cancer. The initial course of treatment includes all treatments administered to the patient from diagnosis and before disease recurrence or progression.

Cancer-directed surgery refers to all surgery that destroys or modifies cancer tissue anywhere in the body.

Cancer-directed surgery may be palliative (to control symptoms, alleviate pain, or make the patient more comfortable), or curative.

The date of each surgical treatment episode should be entered separately.

Procedure dates for biopsies that remove all of the tumour and/or leave only microscopic margins are to be recorded here.

Dates for radiotherapy and systemic treatments are collected as separate items.

Origin:
Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons

Comments:
Collecting the start and finish dates for treatment modalities will enable an estimate of treatment duration.

References

American College of Surgeons 1998. Standards of the Commission on Cancer: Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS), Volume II. Commission on Cancer
This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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