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:** For in situ tumors (behavior /2), code 0. **Note 3:** 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 4:** Code 1 is to be used only when the physician states the response is "total" or "complete."

Default

NAACCR Item

NAACCR #3922

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