EOD Mets

Notes

**Note:** Most pleural and pericardial effusions with lung cancer are due to tumor. In a few patients, however, multiple cytopathological examinations of pleural and/or pericardial fluid are negative for tumor, and the fluid is nonbloody and is not an exudate. Where these elements and clinical judgment dictate that the effusion is not related to the tumor, the effusion should be excluded as a staging element. Code 00 in the absence of any other metastasis.
Code Description SS2018 M
00 No distant metastasis Unknown if distant metastasis NONE
10 Pericardial effusion or pleural effusion (malignant) (ipsilateral, contralateral, bilateral, NOS) Pleural tumor foci or nodules on ipsilateral lung (separate from direct extension) or contralateral lung Pericardial nodules Contralateral lung/main stem bronchus Separate tumor nodule(s) in contralateral lung D
20 Single distant lymph node involved - Cervical - Distant lymph node, NOS WITH or WITHOUT metastasis listed in code 10 D
30 Single extrathoracic metastasis in a single organ WITH or WITHOUT metastasis listed in code 10 D
50 Multiple extrathoracic metastases in a single organ or in multiple organs Abdominal organs Skin of chest Separate lesion in chest wall or diaphragm Multiple distant lymph node(s) - Cervical - Distant lymph node(s), NOS Carcinomatosis Distant metastasis WITH or WITHOUT distant lymph node(s) or metastasis listed in code 10 D
70 Distant metastasis, NOS D
99 Death Certificate Only U
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