LOINC long common name : Collaborative staging tumor size extension evaluation Cancer;
LOINC short name : CS tumor size/ext eval Cancer;
LOINC description : This belongs to the set of Collaborative Staging (CS) data items effective with 2004
diagnosis. CS Tumor Size/Ext Eval records how the codes for CS Tumor Size [2800] and
CS Extension [2810] were determined based on the diagnostic methods employed. This
data item is used in CS to identify whether the T (of AJCC TNM) was clinically or
pathologically diagnosed and by what method, CS Tumor Size/Ext Eval is used to derive
the Derived AJCC T Descriptor [2950]... NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary
Version 11;