Alternate Name	Item#	Length	Source of Standard	Column #
	2610	1000	NPCR	12765-13764

Description
Text area for information describing all surgical procedures performed as part of treatment.

Rationale
Text documentation is an essential component of a complete electronic abstract and is heavily utilized for quality control and special studies. Text is needed to justify coded values and to document supplemental information not transmitted within coded values. High-quality text documentation facilitates consolidation of information from multiple reporting sources at the central registry.

The text field must contain a description that has been entered by the abstractor independently from the code(s). If cancer abstraction software generates text automatically from codes, the text cannot be utilized to check coded values. Information documenting the disease process should be entered manually from the medical record and should not be generated electronically from coded values.

Instructions

• Prioritize entered information in the order of the fields listed below.
• Text automatically generated from coded data is not acceptable.
• NAACCR-approved abbreviations should be utilized (see Appendix G).
• Do not repeat information from other text fields.
• Additional comments can be continued in empty text fields, including Remarks. For text documentation that is continued from one text field to another, use asterisks or other symbols to indicate the connection with preceding text.
• If information is missing from the record, state that it is missing.
• Do not include irrelevant information.
• Do not include information that the registry is not authorized to collect.

Note: For abstracting software that allows unlimited text, NAACCR recommends that the software indicate to the abstractor the portion of the text that will be transmitted to the central registry.

Suggestions for text:

• Date of each procedure.
• Type(s) of surgical procedure(s), including excisional biopsies and surgery to other and distant sites.
• Lymph nodes removed.
• Regional tissues removed.
• Metastatic sites.
• Facility where each procedure was performed.
• Record positive and negative findings. Record positive findings first.
• Other treatment information, e.g., planned procedure aborted; unknown if surgery performed.

Data Item(s) to be verified/validated using the text entered in this field
After manual entry of the text field, ensure that the text entered both agrees with the coded values and clearly justifies the selected codes in the following fields:

	Item name	Item number
	Date of Initial RX--SEER	1260
	Date of 1st Crs RX--CoC	1270
	RX Date Surgery	1200
	RX Summ--Surg Prim Site	1290
	RX Hosp--Surg Prim Site	670
	RX Summ--Scope Reg LN Sur	1292
	RX Hosp--Scope Reg LN Sur	672
	RX Summ--Surg Oth Reg/Dis	1294
	RX Hosp--Surg Oth Reg/Dis	674
	Reason for No Surgery	1340
	RX Summ--Surgical Margins	1320
	RX Hosp--Palliative Proc	3280
	RX Summ--Palliative Proc	3270
	Text--Place of Diagnosis	2690
	RX Summ--Surg/Rad Seq	1380
	RX Summ--Systemic/Sur Seq	1639