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The Cancer Registry CASEbook:
Coding,
Abstracting,
Staging and
Exercises
Volume I – Introductions and Major Sites
Volume II - Challenging Sites
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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
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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)
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Etiology and
Natural History
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Anatomy as
it Relates to Staging: structural anatomy of the organ,
important staging landmarks, regional anatomy, regional
lymph node drainage, distant metastases, with illustrations
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ICD-O-3 Coding of primary site
and histology
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Overview of 2007
Multiple Primary and Histology Coding Rules
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Histologic
Cell Types
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Abstracting
Guidelines: what to record from history and physical exam, imaging, endoscopy,
laboratory tests and tumor markers, operative findings,
histology and pathology reports
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Disease
Management: surgery and
surgery of primary site codes,
radiation therapy, systemic treatment, including common
drugs and regimens
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“Usual”
Treatment by Stage Group
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Collaborative Staging Guidelines with illustrations of
extension
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Other
Staging Systems: TNM, Summary Staging,
site-specific staging
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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
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Answers to
exercises with complete rationales
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VOLUME I |
VOLUME II |
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Introduction to ICD-O-3
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How Cancer Spreads and Introduction to Staging
- Summary Staging
Principles
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TNM Principles
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Collaborative Staging Principles
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Primaries and Histology Coding Rules Overview
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Site-specific chapters for
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Colon
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Lung
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Breast
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Prostate
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Bladder
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Abstacting Text Fields
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Abbreviations, Initialisms and Acronyms
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Diagnostic Tests and Tumor Markers
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The Human Lymph Node System
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Site-specific chapters for
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Head and Neck
Cancers
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Uterine
Cancers: Cervix and Corpus
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Cancer of the
Ovary
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Benign,
Borderline and Malignant Tumors
of the Central
Nervous System
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Malignant
Lymphomas
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VOLUME III |
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Still under development,
but will include
site-specific chapters for |
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Testis
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Malignant Melanoma
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Kidney
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Renal Pelvis and Ureter
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Upper GI: Esophagus, Stomach and
Small Intestine
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Biliary Tract: Liver, Gallbladder, Bile
Ducts, and Pancreas
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Bone
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