Collaborative Staging: Archived News: Announcements and Changes

The following announcements provide a historical record of communications disseminated related to the Collaborative Staging System and previous releases.

09/08/2006 - New Collaborative Staging Manual released, Version 01.03.00

E-Mail Annoucement for Version 01.03.00 Release (40K DOC)

Collaborative Staging Manual Version 01.03.00 part I (495K PDF)
Collaborative Staging Manual Version 01.03.00 part II (2690K PDF)

04/26/2006 - Default and unknown values for CS items (80K XLS Excel format)

10/04/2005 - Updated CS Manual Part I replacement pages now available.

08/19/2005 - Updated melanoma replacement pages now available. This corrects a couple pages in the melanoma scheme that were revised for 01.02 but the 01.01 revisions were accidentally not included.

07/14/2005 - Updated vendor material for implementation of Collaborative Staging (CS) Version 01.02.00. Program now available that will convert cases that are in CS Version 01.02.00.

05/31/2005 - CS Release 01.02.00: CoC Review and Recode Specifications for Approved Programs and the Software Providers that Serve Them

Registrars, software providers, and others identified several problems in the initial release of the CS manual and computer algorithm that are addressed in CS Release 01.02.00. Because the changes affect the integrity of CS staging information already collected, some correction of data already collected is necessary. The specifications that follow are based on documents posted at on this web site. The purpose of this document is to clarify which of the changes are required for registries associated with CoC-approved programs.

05/25/2005 - Collaborative Staging Replacement Pages for Version 01.02.00

Replacement pages for the Collaborative Staging Manual and Coding Instructions for CS Version 01.02.00 are now available in .pdf files for downloading. Electronic HTML and XML versions of the changed tables are also available.

05/03/2005 - Detailed vendor material available for implementation of Collaborative Staging (CS) Version 01.02.00.

04/25/2005 - Collaborative Staging (CS) Version 01.02.00 has been released as a result of inquiries and issues identified by the cancer registry user community since the August 2004 release of Version 01.01.00.

04/20/2005 - Updated Melanoma and Nasopharynx; refreshed XML and HTML zips; reloaded DLL

08/30/2004 - Replacement pages for the Errata of the CS Manual, Part 2 have been added.

08/11/2004 - The new cstage.dll, version 01.01.00 is now available. The new version is a result of editorial and programming changes to certain primary sites and to the CS computer algorithm The updated CS software documents are available on this site in the Software section and instructions for accessing errata documents for the CS Coding Manual Part II can be found in the Manuals section.
Click here for an outline of the major changes affecting the coding of cases

06/30/2004 - Fixed bug in Breast schema which produced incorrect N-value when SSF3 was 095, 097, 098, or 099 (for some values of CS Lymph Nodes). New version is 010005.

05/24/2004 - Fixed CStage_get_table_footnote() function in version 010003. It was getting notes instead of footnotes.

05/14/2004 - Added corrections to Melanoma schema. Fixed program bug that could crash program when invalid histology is entered. New cstagedll is version 010103.

04/14/2004 - Fixed crashing problem in calculation for Prostate schema when SSF3 is missing. New cstagedll is version 010002.

04/02/2004 - Created new cstagedll, version 010001

03/22/2004 - Updated XML individual files, HTML files, csxml.zip, cshtml.zip with numerous changes from March 17 and March 18 uploads. Added missing U-U-U-U line to Summary Stage table. Around two-thirds of the schemas have been changed. DLL has not been updated yet.

01/28/2004 - CS Test Files have been refreshed with the new 1.0.0 version. Four data files provided as test files of input and output from the CS algorithm Program cstage.dll. These are zipped into one file. Sample01272004.zip. Valid and Invalid values have been added to cancerstaging.org. There are two separate spreadsheets All.Valid.xls, All.Invalid.xls Refreshed csxml.zip, cshtml.zip, and cstagedll.zip (to version 01.00.00). Visual basic DLL is also updated with final new functions. Added new function CStage_get_display_code( ) to CS API. New version of DLL is 01.00.00. csdllvb.zip is also updated.

01/21/2004 - Added four functions to application program interface to allow retrieval of notes and footnotes from DLL. New version of DLL is 00.09.37. Re -compiled DLL's for C and Visual Basic. Updated Visual Basic Addendum to the CS API documentation (packaged in the zip file with csdllvb.dll).