Cancer treatment—cancer treatment type

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METEOR identifier:	416603
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 08/05/2014
Definition:	The type of treatment administered during the initial course of treatment for cancer.

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:	Cancer treatment type
Definition:	The type of cancer treatment provided.
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Related metadata references:	Supersedes Cancer treatment—cancer treatment type Health, Superseded 07/12/2011 Has been superseded by Cancer treatment—cancer treatment type Health, Standard 08/05/2014
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Cancer treatment—cancer treatment type, code N[N] Health, Superseded 08/05/2014