Cancer treatment
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Object Class |
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| METEOR identifier: | 288059 |
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| Definition: | The course of cancer directed treatment or treatments, with defined dates of commencement and cessation, given to the patient by a treatment provider or team of providers. It includes all treatments administered to the patient before disease progression or recurrence and applies to surgical treatment, radiation therapy and systemic agent therapy for cancer. |
| Context: | This metadata item is required to provide the basis for a standard approach to recording and monitoring patterns of initial treatment for cancer patients. |
| Specialisation of: | Service/care event |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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| Origin: | Commission on Cancer, Standards of the Commission on Cancer Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS) Volume II (1998) Commission on Cancer, Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (2002) |