Colon - CS Extension (bao) Code 11, extension to "Lamina propria, including lamina propria in the stalk of a polyp", is an AJCC Tis rather than AJCC T1. NOTE: CS algorithm should be re-run on colon cases coded to CS Extension code 11.
Lymphoma - Correction of a missing storage code "19" for AJCC Stage Group in an internal table for the lymphoma special schema function. No change was required in the XML tables.
Breast - CS Extension (bak) - Inflammatory Breast Cancer coding descriptions corrected to reflect recommendations from AJCC to include a "size" on the clinical involvement in the CS descriptions for CS Extension codes 71 and 73. Size of involvement as defined by AJCC is majority of the breast of which is greater than 50%. CS Extension code 72 has been deleted.
SSF 3 (lac) Note 3 and Note 4 added to clarify how SSF3 is coded and that it is based on pathologic information only. NOTE: Any breast cases coded to CS Extension code 72 should be re-coded to code 71.
Retinoblastoma - Added new notes to CS Extension (bcu) and Site-Specific Factor 1, Extension Evaluated at Enucleation (jat) clarifying the calculation between these tables. Retinoblastoma Extra table CS Mets at DX, CS Mets Eval, which required changes to special Retinoblastoma table code.
Prostate - CS Extension (bbo) and Site-Specific Factor 3, CS Extension - Pathologic Extension (lab) added new notes explaining that these fields must both be coded, whether or not a prostatectomy was performed.
Melanoma - Editorial changes to melanoma schema to correct inconsistencies in mapping tables for CS Extension and CS Lymph Nodes resulted in the revision of the following tables: CS Extension (ban) - changes to the notes and asterisked notes, CS Lymph Nodes (dam) - changes to notes, codes 13-15, and 20, the addition of new codes 17, 18, and 22, SSF1 (jaa)- deleted code 990 and added description from code 990 to code 999. SSF 2 (kaa), SSF3 (laa) and Extra Table 1 (xbn), Extra Table 2 (xbo), and Extra Table 3 (xbp) underwent changes to notes. Extra Table 3 (xbp) CS Reg Nodes Positive Table was replaced.
Histology Exclusion Tables - Histologies 8244-8247 removed from exclusion tables per AJCC decision as these histologies are TNM Staged on the following tables: Common histology exclusion table number 1 (ppd), Commonhistolgoyexclusionpancreas (ppb), Lung- Hist exclusion table (paa), Skineyelid - Hist exclusion table (pab), Prostate- Hist exclusion table (pag).
"Editorial changes only" to the following schemas, commons, generals and non-apps tables -anterior epiglottis, anus, bladder, brain, breast, cervix, colon, conjunctiva, corpus, esophagus, fallopian tube, gallbladder, hemaret, hypopharynx, kidney, kaposi sarcoma, lacrimal gland, liver, lung, lymphoma, melanoma, melanoma conjunctiva, melanoma other eye, nasopharynx, orbit, oropharynx, other adenxa, other cns, other ill-defined, other pancreas, other pharynx, other urinary, ovary pancreas head, pancreas tail and body, parotid gland, penis, placenta, prostate, rectum, renal pelvis, scrotum, small intestine, soft tissue, stomach, testis, thyroid, urethra, vagina, vulva. commonssf1- 6 headneck.xml, commonssf1-5 otherlip.xml, commonmetslip. commonstageheartmed, commonstagecolorectal, generalcstsexteval, generalmetsatdx, notappscsmetsatdx, notappslymphnodes, notappsextension.
