The Cancer Registry CASEbook:

Coding, Abstracting, Staging and Exercises

Volume I – Introductions and Major Sites

Note:  Volume I of the CASEbooks is sold out and probably won't
be available until this fall when Volume II is published.

The CASEbook is a new tool for registrars that consolidates coding and abstracting guidelines from many different sources into a single reference.  As April explains in the foreword to the CASEbook:

This book originally came about because my desk was too small.  After layering my Collaborative Staging Manual
       on my Multiple Primary and Histology Coding Rules
              on my site-specific coding guidelines
                     on my SEER Summary Staging book
                            on my ICD-O book
                                   on my TNM Staging Manual
                                          on my FORDS Manual
                                                 and then needing my CS Manual again,
I began to wish that someone would compile all the important abstracting information into one reference.

The CASEbook contains comprehensive, illustrated, site-specific information and practica for beginner and intermediate level cancer registrars. I f you haven’t figured it out, CASEbook stands for Coding, Abstracting, Staging, and Exercises, and there are lots of exercises in the book.

Each site-specific chapter contains information and coding guidelines on:
(click on links to see actual pages from the CASEbook)

• Etiology and Natural History

• Anatomy as it Relates to Staging: structural anatomy of the organ, important staging landmarks, regional anatomy, regional lymph node drainage, distant metastases, with illustrations

• ICD-O-3 Coding of primary site and histology

• Overview of 2007 Multiple Primary and Histology Coding Rules

• Histologic Cell Types

• Abstracting Guidelines: what to record from history and physical exam, imaging, endoscopy, laboratory tests and tumor markers, operative findings, histology and pathology reports

• Disease Management: surgery and surgery of primary site codes, radiation therapy, systemic treatment, including common drugs and regimens

• “Usual” Treatment by Stage Group

• Collaborative Staging Guidelines with illustrations of extension

• Other Staging Systems: TNM, Summary Staging, site-specific staging

• Coding and Staging Exercises: a dozen one-page case scenarios to code with  ICD-O-3, summary stage, TNM 6th edition, and Collaborative Staging, plus a full page of ICD-O-3 coding exercises for site, morphology, behavior and grade

• Answers to exercises with complete rationales

Coming in 2008....Volume II of the  CASEbook

•   Head and Neck primaries

•   Lymphomas and Hematopoietic Diseases

•   Central Nervous System

•   Female Genital Organs

•   and more!