Cancer treatment—surgical procedure date, DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Date of surgical treatment for cancer
METEOR identifier:	288632
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 07/12/2011
Definition:	The date on which the cancer-directed surgical treatment was performed.
Data Element Concept:	Cancer treatment—surgical procedure date

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Date

Data type:

Date/Time

Format:

DDMMYYYY

Maximum character length:

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

The date of each surgical treatment episode should be entered separately. Collected for curative and palliative surgery prior to the first recurrence.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

National Cancer Control Initiative

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)

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 07/12/2005

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This field must be greater than or equal to the date of initial cancer diagnosis. This item is collected for analyses of outcome by treatment type.

Cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 06/03/2009

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This field must be greater than or equal to the date of initial cancer diagnosis. This item is collected for analyses of outcome by treatment type.

Cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 22/12/2009

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This field must be greater than or equal to the date of initial cancer diagnosis. This item is collected for analyses of outcome by treatment type.

Cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 07/12/2011

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This field must be greater than or equal to the date of initial cancer diagnosis. This item is collected for analyses of outcome by treatment type.