| Field Name | Format | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PATIENT | Character or Numeric | *Required Code to identify patient (Cohort Patient ID) |
| CANC_D | YYYY-MM-DD | *Required Date of cancer diagnosis |
| CANC_D_A | Character < = Before this date D = Exact to the date M = Exact to the month Y = Exact to the year > = After the date U = Unknown | Date approximation for CANC_D |
| LOC_CODE | Character 1 = Anal 8 = Breast 12 = Colon 9 = Invasive cervical 20 = Kaposi's Sarcoma 33 = Lung 39 = Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 51 = Other 62 = Prostate 64 = Skin: melanoma 65 = Skin: non-melanoma 99 = Unknown | *Required Cancer location code according to diagnosis |
| LOC_CODE_SYS | Character | Location coding system ICD10, ICD9, other systems; e.g., NA-ACCORD-short list (suggest using NA-ACCORD-short list: NA-ACCORD_Clinical_DxICD9_Mapping Update Sept 2014.xls) |
| HIST_CODE | Character | Histology code according to diagnosis |
| HIST_CODE_SYS | Character | Histology coding system ICD-O-3, other systems, e.g. NA-ACCORD-short list, None (suggest using NA-ACCORD-short list: NA-ACCORD_Cancer_Registry_Dx_Mapping Update Sept 2014.xls) |