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Tumor Tip of the Week 01-05-2024 What’s New in 2024
Required Reading 2024 NAACCR Implementation Guidelines and Recommendations (Revised January 2023) https://www.naaccr.org/implementation-guidelines/ ICD-O-3.2 Implementation Documents for implementation in 2024 – Use of implementation guidelines is
Tumor Tip of the Week- 12-21-2023 CRM-Mesenteric Vascular Margin
Scenario: Path Cap Summary Margins: Negative In the gross description I find this information Distance of mass to: Proximal margin: 14 cm Distal margin: 11
Tumor Tip of the Week 12-15-2023 Tips for Prolactinoma revised
Scenario: 02-20-2023 MRI Brain: Approximately 0.7 cm T2 hyperintense, hypo enhancing lesion in the central pituitary gland is suspicious for a pituitary microadenoma. 04-21-2023 Office
Tumor Tip of the Week-12-08-2023 Physical Exam Text Are You Including all the Information Needed
Text documentation is required to justify coded values and to supplement information not transmitted with coded values. You should be able to abstract your entire
Tumor Tip of the Week-12-01-2023 pNX Blank or cN0
Scenario {Partial Snips of Synoptic Reports} AJCC Path N Category Rationale Procedure Total thyroidectomy Tumor Focality Unifocal Tumor Site Left lobe Histologic Type Papillary
Tumor Tip of the Week-11-17-2023 Are you assigning yc Posttherapy Stage as often as you should be?
Scenario: Patient presented with Rectal Primary cT2 cN2a cM0 Stage 3B Grade 3 Adenocarcinoma Treatment Plan: Total neo-adjuvant therapy followed by consolidative proctocolectomy with perhaps