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The CASEbook is a tool for registrars that consolidates coding and abstracting guidelines from many different sources into a single reference.  The Second Edition includes CS version 02.03, TNM Seventh Edition, Hematopoietic Multiple Primary Rules, and updated exercises and rationales.

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.  If 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)

        NOTE:  The links below are from the original CASEbooks.  We are in the

                       process of updating them with views of the Second Edition pages.

• 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

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