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The Cancer Registry CASEbook:

Coding, Abstracting, Staging and Exercises

Volume I – Introductions and Major Sites
Volume II - Challenging Sites

 

 

Order your CASEbook here.

We have created an errata sheet for Volume I which contains changes and updates since the volume was originally published.  The errata, as of December 31, 2008, can be downloaded here.

 

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)

VOLUME I VOLUME II
  • Introduction to ICD-O-3
  • How Cancer Spreads and Introduction to Staging
  • Summary Staging Principles
  • TNM Principles
  • Collaborative Staging Principles
  • Primaries and Histology Coding Rules Overview
  • Site-specific chapters for
    • Colon
    • Lung
    • Breast
    • Prostate
    • Bladder 
  • Abstacting Text Fields
  • Abbreviations, Initialisms and Acronyms
  • Diagnostic Tests and Tumor Markers
  • The Human Lymph Node System
  • Site-specific chapters for
    • Head and Neck Cancers
    • Uterine Cancers: Cervix and Corpus
    • Cancer of the Ovary
    • Benign, Borderline and Malignant Tumors
      of the Central Nervous System
    • Malignant Lymphomas
 

VOLUME III

 
  Still under development, but will include
site-specific chapters for
 
 
  • Testis
  • Malignant Melanoma
  • Kidney
  • Renal Pelvis and Ureter
  • Upper GI: Esophagus, Stomach and
    Small Intestine
  • Biliary Tract: Liver, Gallbladder, Bile
    Ducts, and Pancreas
  • Bone