Date of Conclusive Terminology

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This data item is optional effective with 01/01/2013 diagnoses, but remain required for diagnoses in 2007-2012.

This data item is effective with cases diagnosed on or after January 1, 2007.  For those cases originally accessioned based on ambiguous terminology only, this data item documents the date of a definite statement of malignancy.  The abstractor will change the code for the data item Ambiguous Terminology from a 1 to a 2 and enter the date that the malignancy was described clearly and definitely in the Date of Conclusive Terminology.

Date

Record the date in month, day, year format (MMDDCCYY) that the malignancy was described with conclusive terminology at least 60 days after it was initially diagnosed by ambiguous terminology.

Special Codes

Leave this field blank for cases diagnosed prior to 1/1/2007.