Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy
Notes
**Note 1:** Clinician statement of Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy (“treatment effect”) must be used to code this data item.
**Note 2:** Review the medical record for a specific statement by a clinician about the response to neoadjuvant therapy. Response is based on pathology report, imaging and clinical findings.
**Note 3:** Any description of less than “total” or “complete”, should be coded as 2, partial response if there is residual tumor on the report.
Default
8
Metadata
SSDI
| Code |
Description |
| 0 |
Neoadjuvant therapy not given |
| 1 |
Stated as complete response (CR) |
| 2 |
Stated as partial response (PR) |
| 3 |
Stated as response to treatment, but not noted if complete or partial |
| 4 |
Stated as no response (NR) |
| 8 |
Not applicable: Information not collected for this case
(If this item is required by your standard setter, use of code 8 will result in an edit error.) |
| 9 |
Not documented in medical record
Response to neoadjuvant therapy not assessed or unknown if assessed |
