Registry Accession Year

Field Length: 9

These fields are used to identify cases by year accessioned in the order in which they were entered into the registry at your institution. The first four digits should be the year the patient was first seen in your institution. The last five digits will be the next number available to be assigned, i.e., the first case accessioned in 1991 will be recorded 19910001.

Exceptions:       A patient enters the reporting institution in December 2002 and is diagnosed with cancer in January 2003. The accession number is 2003 _ _ _ _.

The registry's reference date is January 1, 1996. A patient is diagnosed with breast cancer and has a partial mastectomy at the reporting institution in December 1995. The patient starts a course of radiation therapy at the reporting institution in January 1996. Assign the accession number

1996 _ _ _ _ .