Summary Stage 2018: Prostate
Summary Stage 2018
Notes
**Prostate**
8000-8700, 8720-8790
C619
C619 Prostate gland
**Note 1:** **Sources used in the development of this chapter**
* SEER Extent of Disease 1988: Codes and Coding Instructions (3rd Edition, 1998) (https://seer.cancer.gov/archive/manuals/EOD10Dig.3rd.pdf)
* SEER Summary Staging Manual-2000: Codes and Coding Instructions (https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/ssm/ssm2000/)
* Collaborative Stage Data Collection System, version 02.05: https://cancerstaging.org/cstage/Pages/default.aspx
* Chapter 58 *Prostate*, in the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, Eighth Edition (2017) published by Springer International Publishing. Used with permission of the American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
**Note 2:** **Other Summary Stage Chapters with Prostate sites**
* **GIST**: 8935-8936
* **Kaposi Sarcoma**: 9140
* **Mycosis Fungoides**: 9700-9701
* **Soft Tissue**: 8710-8714, 8800-8934, 8940-9138, 9141-9582
**Note 3:** **Transitional cell carcinoma of prostatic urethra**
* See the *Urethra* chapter for transitional cell (urothelial) carcinoma of the prostatic urethra (C680).
**Note 4:** **TURP only**
* When the only information available is a TURP, with no evidence of lymph node involvement or distant metastasis involvement, assign code 1.
**Note 5:** **Do not use imaging**
* Imaging is not used to determine clinical extension. If a physician incorporates imaging findings into their evaluation, do not use this information.
* If it cannot be determined if the physician is using imaging, assume they are not and code the Summary Stage based on the physician’s statement
**Note 6:** **No DRE, but physician assigns stage**
* If there is no information from the DRE, but the physician assigns an extent of disease, the registrar can use that.
* ***Example:*** DRE reveals prostate is "firm." Physician stages the patient as a cT2a.
* The T2a (localized) can be used since the physician has documented this
**Note 7:** **Localized cancers**
* Localized (code 1) can be assigned when the DRE result is not documented, or DRE not done and there is no evidence of extraprostatic extension
* ***Example 1:*** Patient with elevated PSA and positive needle core biopsy, but no documentation regarding tumor apparency (inapparent versus apparent), and there is no evidence of extraprostatic extension. No prostatectomy done
* ***Example 2:*** Pathology report from a needle core biopsy done confirming cancer. No information on PSA, DRE, Radical prostatectomy, or physician statement regarding clinical extension
* ***Example 3:*** Pathology report from a needle core biopsy done confirming cancer. No information on PSA, DRE or physician statement regarding clinical extension. Physician states imaging shows extraprostatic extension and assigns cT3a
**Note 8:** **Extraprostatic extension**
* If a needle core biopsy confirms extraprostatic extension, that information can be used for Summary Stage.
**Note 9:** **Involvement of prostatic urethra**
* Involvement of prostatic urethra does not alter the Summary Stage code.
**Note 10:** **Frozen pelvis**
* "Frozen pelvis" is a clinical term which means tumor extends to pelvic sidewall(s) (code 7).
**Note 11:** **Incidental finding**
* When prostate cancer is an incidental finding during a prostatectomy for other reasons (for example, a cystoprostatectomy for bladder cancer), use the appropriate code for the extent of disease found.
SS2018 |
Description |
0 |
**In situ**, intraepithelial, noninvasive |
1 |
**Localized only (localized, NOS)**
- Clinically apparent or inapparent tumor
- Confined to prostate, NOS
- Intracapsular involvement only
- Invasion into (but not beyond) prostatic capsule
- No extracapsular extension
- One or more lobes involved |
2 |
**Regional by direct extension only**
- Bladder neck
- Bladder, NOS
- External sphincter
- Extraprostatic/extracapsular extension (beyond prostate capsule), unilateral, bilateral, NOS
- Extraprostatic urethra (membranous urethra)
- Fixation, NOS
- Levator muscles
- Periprostatic tissue
- Rectovesical (Denonvillier's) fascia
- Rectum
- Seminal vesicles
- Skeletal muscle
- Through capsule, NOS
- Ureter(s) |
3 |
**Regional lymph node(s) involved only**
- Hypogastric
- Iliac, NOS
+ External
+ Internal (hypogastric) (obturator), NOS
- Pelvic, NOS
- Periprostatic
- Sacral, NOS
+ Lateral (laterosacral)
+ Middle (promontory) (Gerota's node)
+ Presacral
- Regional lymph node(s), NOS
+ Lymph node(s), NOS |
4 |
**Regional by BOTH direct extension AND regional lymph node(s) involved**
- Codes (2) + (3) |
7 |
**Distant site(s)/lymph node(s) involved**
- Distant site(s) (including further contiguous extension)
+ Bone
+ Extension to or fixation to pelvic wall or pelvic bone
+ "Frozen pelvis", NOS
+ Other organs
+ Penis
+ Sigmoid colon
+ Soft tissue other than periprostatic
- Distant lymph node(s), NOS
+ Aortic (lateral [lumbar], para-aortic, periaortic, NOS)
+ Cervical
+ Common iliac
+ Inguinal (deep, NOS)
* Node of Cloquet or Rosenmuller (highest deep inguinal)
* Superficial (femoral)
+ Retroperitoneal, NOS
+ Scalene (inferior deep cervical)
+ Supraclavicular (transverse cervical)
- Distant metastasis, NOS
+ Carcinomatosis
+ Distant metastasis WITH or WITHOUT distant lymph node(s) |
9 |
Unknown if extension or metastasis |
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