Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Cancer treatment
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:	Surgical procedure for cancer
Definition:	The surgical procedure(s) used in the treatment of a cancer.
Property group:	Service provision event

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element concept attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:	Supersedes Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer Health, Superseded 07/12/2011 Has been superseded by Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer Health, Standard 08/05/2014
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer, procedure code (ACHI 7th edn) NNNNN-NN Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer, procedure code (ACHI 8th edn) NNNNN-NN Health, Superseded 08/05/2014