CS Mets at DX

Notes

**Note 1**: Para-aortic and pericaval lymph nodesare 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 code 15 or CS Lymph Nodes code 400 Distant lymph node(s) including: Para-aortic Peripancreatic (along body and tail of pancreas only) Distant lymph nodes, NOS	ERROR:	M1	D	D
15	Distant lymph node(s) including: Peripancreatic (along body and tail of pancreas only) Distant lymph nodes, NOS	M1	M1	D	D
40	Distant metastasis except distant lymph nodes 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 (10 + 40)	ERROR:	M1	D	D
51	40 + 15 Distant metastasis plus distant lymph nodes in code 15	M1	M1	D	D
60	Distant metastasis, NOS Stated as M1 with no other information on 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 value of CS Lymph Nodes as shown in the Lymph Nodes Mets at DX AJCC 6 Table for this schema.