CS Mets at DX

Notes

**Note**: Para-aortic and pericaval lymph nodes are classified as regional nodes for AJCC 7 staging and are coded in CS Lymph Nodes.

Code	Description	AJCC 7 M	AJCC 6 M	Summary Stage 1977 M	Summary Stage 2000 M
00	No distant metastasis	M0	Lymph Nodes Mets at DX AJCC6	NONE	NONE
10	OBSOLETE DATA RETAINED V0200 Para-aortic nodes reclassified from distant to regional nodes in AJCC 7th Edition; see CS Lymph Nodes codes 620 and 635 Distant lymph node(s), including: Para-aortic Peripancreatic (along body and tail of pancreas only) Distant lymph node(s), NOS	ERROR:	M1	D	D
15	Distant lymph node(s), including: Peripancreatic (along body and tail of pancreas only) Distant lymph node(s), NOS	M1	M1	D	D
40	Distant metastases except distant lymph node(s) Carcinomatosis	M1	M1	D	D
50	OBSOLETE DATA RETAINED V0200 Para-aortic nodes reclassified from distant to regional nodes in AJCC 7th Edition; See Code 51 (40 + 10) Distant lymph node(s) plus other distant metastases	ERROR:	M1	D	D
51	40 + 15 Distant metastasis plus distant lymph nodes	M1	M1	D	D
60	Distant metastasis, NOS Stated as M1 with no other information on distant metastasis	M1	M1	D	D
99	Unknown; distant metastasis not stated Distant metastasis cannot be assessed Not documented in patient record	M0	Lymph Nodes Mets at DX AJCC6	U	U

- For CS Mets at DX codes 00 and 99, the M category for AJCC 6 staging is assigned based on the coding of CS Lymph Nodes and CS Mets at DX as shown in the Lymph Nodes Mets at DX AJCC 6 Table for this schema.