LOINC long common name : PhenX - pre-existing cancer conditions protocol 070801;
LOINC short name : Pre-existing cancer conditions proto;
LOINC description : This self-administered protocol asks respondents to indicate the year of diagnosis
for clinician-diagnosed illnesses. The respondent is also asked to provide the year
of first diagnosis. The Cancer Working Group (WG) slightly modified this question
from the original protocol text. The original protocol obtains year of diagnosis by
asking respondents to choose between three choices (Before June 1, 2003; June 2003
to May 2005; or after June 1, 2005). The Cancer WG removed the phrase since June 2003
in order to allow collection of diagnoses that occurred prior to June 2003. The additional
response options were deleted, and respondents are now asked to write in the four-digit
year of diagnosis.;