Alternate Name	Item#	Length	Source of Standard	Column #
Type of Staging System (Pediatric) (CoC)	1130	2	CoC	978-979

Description
Staging system used to assign the Pediatric Stage.

Rationale
Staging of pediatric tumors requires very different schemes from those used to stage adult tumors.

Codes

00	None
01	AJCC
02	Ann Arbor
03	Children's Cancer Group (CCG)
04	Evans
05	General Summary
06	Intergroup Ewings
07	Intergroup Hepatoblastoma
08	Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma
09	International System
10	Murphy
11	NCI (pediatric oncology)
12	National Wilms's Tumor Study
13	Pediatric Oncology Group (POG)
14	Reese-Ellsworth
15	SEER Extent of Disease
88	Not applicable (not pediatric case)
97	Other
99	Unknown

Note: This data item is no longer supported by CoC (as of January 1, 2003).