Thank you Dan, this is very helpful!

Regards,

Justin Dale
Manager - Research Development and Support
University of Minnesota
Academic Health Center - Office of Information Systems
Phone: 612.624.9747
Fax: 612.624.7458
[email protected]


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Dan Connolly <[email protected]> wrote:

>  The SEER Site Summary is a combination of Primary Site and histology.
> For example, breast cancer is not just "cancer with primary site breast";
> it excludes some histologies; in the recode definition
> <http://seer.cancer.gov/siterecode/icdo3_d01272003/>, we see:
>
>   Site Group ICD-O-3 Site ICD-O-3 Histology (Type) Recode
>   Breast C500-C509 excluding 9590-9989, and sometimes 9050-9055, 9140+
> <http://seer.cancer.gov/siterecode/icdo3_d01272003/#_+> 26000
> In seer_recode.sql
> <https://informatics.kumc.edu/work/browser/heron_load/seer_recode.sql>
> this becomes:
>
>
> /* Breast */ when (site between 'C500' and 'C509')
>   and  not (histology between '9050' and '9055'
>    or histology = '9140'
>    or histology between '9590' and '9992') then '26000'
>
> A blog item tells the whole story:
>
>    - Adding SEER Site Recode to HERON Tumor Registry integration
>    <https://informatics.kumc.edu/work/blog/2012/01/seer-recode-sql>  --
>    Posted on 2012-01-24
>
> --
> Dan
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* [email protected] [
> [email protected]] on behalf of Justin Dale [[email protected]
> ]
> *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2014 4:30 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Cancer Identification\Primary Site VS SEER Site Summary
>
>   Can someone provide insight on the differences between the Primary Site
> under Cancer Identification vs SEER Site Summary?
>
>  For example, the breast has nine corresponding ICD-0-3 sites
> (C500-C509), all of which are listed under Cancer Identification > Primary
> Site > Breast in KUMC's babel hierarchy.  I can select the individual sites
> or the entire folder to include all sites.  Under the SEER Site Summary in
> KUMC's babel hierarchy, Breast is listed with a recode of 26000, which I
> assume rolls up the nine site codes based on info from the SEER website (
> http://seer.cancer.gov/siterecode/icdo3_d01272003/).
>
>  I'm having difficulty understanding the differences between the two and
> is it really necessary to implement the SEER Site Summary in our i2b2.
>  Does it have to do with a point in time in which ICD-0 was implemented and
> the SEER site summary was how it used to be done?
>
>  Your insights are much appreciated. Thanks.
>
>  Justin
>
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