✨ Are all your manuals up to date? Referencing the correct manuals is foundational to abstracting. Review the following (list last updated 8/21/2023):
- ICD-O-3 (https://www.naaccr.org/icdo3/)
- most of the material are for 2021+ but the annotated histology list on this site is useful for ALL diagnosis years
- Solid tumor rules – applicable for 2018+ cases; 2021+ cutaneous melanoma; 2023+ for other sites
- find it here: https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/solidtumor/
- Change log: https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/solidtumor/revisions.html
- Grade manual – applicable for 2018+ cases
- find it here: https://apps.naaccr.org/ssdi/list/ (under “Resources”)
- grade post therapy clin (yc) is new for 2021+ and can be left blank for cases diagnosed 2018-2020
- download latest change log for both grade & SSDI manual from same website, last under “Resources”
- SSDI manual – applicable for 2018+ cases
- find it here: https://apps.naaccr.org/ssdi/list/ (under “Resources”)
- includes clarifications that are applicable for 2018+
- includes BOTH changes to SSDI that affect 2018+ (schema discriminator 2 soft tissue sarcomas) and those that affect 2021+
- download latest change log for both grade & SSDI manual from same website, last under “Resources”
- Heme coding manual – applicable for ✨ 2010+ ✨ cases
- find it here: https://seer.cancer.gov/seertools/hemelymph/ (click on “Downloads”)
- see page 8 for revision history, beware of histologies reportability changes and NEW histologies
- no change to link for Heme Database (https://seer.cancer.gov/seertools/hemelymph/) but drop down “help me code for diagnosis year” updates
- Summary Stage 2018 – applicable for 2018+ cases
- find it here: https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/ssm/
- change log (latest is v2.1 to v3.0): https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/ssm/change-log.pdf
- STORE manuals – applicable based on diagnosis year
- find it here: https://www.facs.org/quality-programs/cancer-programs/national-cancer-database/ncdb-call-for-data/
- look for summary of changes sections
- CTR Guide to Coding Radiation
- Latest version as an appendix in STORE 2023
- AJCC 8th edition – applicable for 2018+ cases; Version 9 (various sites per diagnosis year, LINK)
- find errata here: https://www.facs.org/quality-programs/cancer/ajcc/cancer-staging/updates-corrections
- AJCC 8th not collected by OCISS but is collected by NCDB/CoC
- CoC Standards – Optimal Resources for Cancer Care
- this is specific to CoC facilities
- find it here: https://www.facs.org/quality-programs/cancer-programs/commission-on-cancer/standards-and-resources/
- SEER Program Coding and Staging Manual (SPCSM)
- manual and appendices: https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/codingmanuals/
- this is specific to SEER states (Ohio is NOT a SEER state), however, portions of this manual is very helpful for abstracting in general, such as Appendix C: Site Specific Coding Modules w/ direct links to Solid Tumor Rules, coding helps, and clarifications to STORE’s surgery codes
- Due to STORE reduction in 2021 several data items are no longer covered in the STORE manual but can be found in the SEER coding manual
- ✨ SEER*RSA
- https://staging.seer.cancer.gov/eod_public/list/3.0/
- Not a manual but online searchable reference grouped by schema that encompasses Grade, SSDIs, Summary Stage 2018, few other standard data items along with other SEER specific data items (EOD)
- Click on each data item for the relevant notes from the corresponding manual
