Clinical N

This input is used for staging

Notes

**Note 1:** Code only regional nodes and nodes, NOS, in this field. Distant nodes are coded in M (distant metastasis). **Note 2:** Hepatoduodenal nodes are regional for primaries of the lesser curvature of the stomach. They are coded in M (distant metastasis) for all other subsites in this schema. **Regional lymph nodes** Celiac Hepatic (excluding gastrohepatic) Hepatoduodenal Left gastric (superior gastric), NOS: Cardial Cardioesophageal Gastric, left Gastropancreatic, left Lesser curvature Lesser omental Paracardial Hepatoduodenal (for lesser curvature) Nodule(s) in perigastric fat Pancreaticosplenic (pancreaticolienal) Pancreaticoduodenal Perigastric, NOS Peripancreatic Right gastric (inferior gastric), NOS Gastrocolic Gastroduodenal Gastroepiploic (gastro-omental), right or NOS Gastrohepatic Greater curvature Greater omental Pyloric, NOS: infrapyloric, subpyloric, suprapyloric Splenic (lienal), NOS: Gastroepiploic (gastro-omental), left Splenic hilar

NAACCR Item

NAACCR #950
Clinical N Clinical N Display Description Registrar Notes
cX cNX Regional lymph node(s) cannot be assessed Clinical classification criteria met, evaluation done:
Physician unable to assess N
Regional lymph node involvement cannot be determined or findings inconclusive
Physician assigns cNX, no other information available to determine N
c0 cN0 No regional lymph node metastasis
c1 cN1 Regional lymph node metastasis Nodule(s) in perigastric fat

Regional lymph nodes, NOS
Lymph nodes, NOS

Stated as N1
88 88 Not applicable Death certificate only (DCO) case
<BLANK> BLANK See Registrar Notes Clinical classification criteria not met
Clinical classification criteria met, evaluation done:
No information about diagnostic workup
Results not documented in record
Tumor first detected on surgical resection (no clinical workup)
Evidence of metastatic disease [(cM1) or (pM1)], no other workup
Only Clinical Stage Group documented (no T, N, or M information available)