Patient—diagnosis date (first recurrence of cancer), DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Date of diagnosis of first recurrence
METEOR identifier:	288596
Registration status:	Health, Standard 04/06/2004
Definition:	The date a medical practitioner confirms the diagnosis of a recurrent or metastatic cancer of the same histology.
Data Element Concept:	Patient—diagnosis date

Value domain attributes

Representation class:

Date

Data type:

Date/Time

Format:

DDMMYYYY

Maximum character length:

Guide for use:

The term `recurrence' defines the return, reappearance or metastasis of cancer (of the same histology) after a disease free period.

Comments:

This item is collected for determining the time interval from diagnosis to recurrence, from treatment to recurrence and from recurrence to death.

Origin:

Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons

Reference documents:

Commission on Cancer, Standards of the Commission on Cancer Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS) Volume II (1998)

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This field must: be greater than the date of diagnosis of cancer be greater than the cancer initial treatment - completion date (if less than cancer initial treatment - completion date, the patient was never disease-free)

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This field must: be greater than the date of diagnosis of cancer be greater than the cancer initial treatment - completion date (if less than cancer initial treatment - completion date, the patient was never disease-free)

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This field must: be greater than the date of diagnosis of cancer be greater than the cancer initial treatment - completion date (if less than cancer initial treatment - completion date, the patient was never disease-free)

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This field must: be greater than the date of diagnosis of cancer be greater than the cancer initial treatment - completion date (if less than cancer initial treatment - completion date, the patient was never disease-free)