CS Site-Specific Factor 7

Tumor Necrosis

Notes

**Note**: Code the presence or absence of tumor necrosis as documented in the pathology report. Assign code 000 if histologic examination of primary site was performed, the pathology report is available for review, and tumor necrosis is not mentioned.

Default

988

NAACCR Item

NAACCR #2861
Code Description
000 Tumor necrosis not present/not identified
010 Tumor necrosis present/identified
988 Not applicable: Information not collected for this case
(If this information is required by your standard setter, use of code 988 may result in an edit error.)
997 Histologic examination of primary site performed, unknown results
998 No histologic examination of primary site
999 Unknown or no information
Not documented in patient record