Unit Review
What makes the new SEER Summary Staging Manual - 2000 (SSSM2K)
a true manual is that it offers instructions, definitions,
and detailed descriptions. Further, the actual standard NAACCR
stage codes are provided (unlike the old Summary Staging Guide
-1977 (SSG77)). In addition, there are other major changes:
- The new manual contains the site codes that are listed
in ICD-O-2/3.
- Every primary site now has a scheme in SSSM2K - amajor
improvement over the old SSG77.
- The European Eponymic Standard was adopted in the new
SSSM2K.
- New "time rule."
The new content of the SSSM2K may change the stage from what
it would have been using the old SSG77. Notations used in
the new SSSM2K denote those changes. Users of the new SSSM2K
are encouraged to read the introductory pages of the manual
PRIOR to attempting to stage a case.
Hands-on Exercises
A set of hands-on exercises have been created to give you
an opportunity to reinforce what you have learned.
There are six real world cancer cases. Based on the information
presented to you in these cases, you will be asked to provide
information on primary site text, site code, morphology text,
morphology code, summary stage 1977 text, and the SEER Summary
Staging Manual-2000 code.
Wherever a code is required in the exercise, the answer is
definite and a correct answer is expected. In this case, you
are limited to three tries to answer the question correctly.
After failing three times, the standard answer will be presented
to you and the interaction will be terminated.
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here to work on the hands-on exercises
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