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 AND REVIEWED V0203 See codes 00 and 51 and CS Lymph Nodes codes 355 and 370 Distant lymph node(s), including: Para-aortic Peripancreatic (along body and tail of pancreas only) Distant lymph node(s), NOS	M1	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 AND REVIEWED V0203 See codes 40 and 51 (40) + (10) Distant lymph node(s) plus other distant metastases	M1	M1	D	D
51	40 + 15 Distant metastasis plus distant lymph nodes	M1	M1	D	D
60	Distant metastases, 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 as shown in the Lymph Nodes Mets at DX AJCC 6 Table for this schema.