Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 393413 |
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| Definition: | The target site of cancer-directed surgery performed during the initial course of treatment for cancer. |
Cancer treatment—surgery target site
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Cancer treatment |
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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 |
| 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) |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Surgery target site |
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| METEOR identifier: | 413947 |
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| Definition: | The anatomical location or site in the body where surgery is performed. Surgery is the treatment of disease, injury and deformity by physical operation or manipulation. |
| Property group: | Service provision event |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
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| Reference documents: | Stedman TL 2006. Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th Edition. Maryland: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins page 1877 |
Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
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Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Cancer treatment—surgery target site
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Cancer treatment—surgery target site, topography code (ICD-O-3) ANN.N
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