Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 39, March 25, 2024
Subpart 1.
Case information.
Reports of case information that are required in part
4606.3303 must consist of source
documents and contain as much of the following information as is known:
A. patient identifiers, including Social
Security number, and demographics;
B. provider and facility
information;
C. cancer diagnostic
information;
D. extent of disease
and other prognostic factor information;
E. first course of cancer-directed
treatment;
F. follow-up
information; and
G. other
information as needed for system administration.
Subp. 1a.
Data items.
The commissioner shall, at least once per year and by
publication in the State Register and electronic notice on the Minnesota Cancer
Surveillance System Web site, provide a list of the data items to be reported
under part
4606.3303, subpart
1, and specify the format to
be used for electronic reports. The list will be revised according to national
cancer reporting standards.
Subp.
1b.
Reporting standards.
The following guides and standards for reporting the
information required in subparts
1 and
1a are incorporated by
reference and are available through the Minitex interlibrary loan system. They
are also available electronically as specified in items A and D.
A. Standards for Cancer Registries: Volume
II, Data Standards and Data Dictionary, Fourteenth Edition Record Layout
Version 12 (2010), and subsequent editions; and Volume V, Electronic Pathology
Reporting Standards, Version 3.0 (2009) and subsequent editions; North American
Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), Springfield, Illinois.
NAACCR reporting standards are updated frequently and are published
electronically at www.naaccr.org.
B. Summary Staging Guide, Cancer Surveillance
Epidemiology and End Results Reporting, SEER Program (April 1977, reprinted
July 1986), published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Public Health
Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIH publication number
86-2313 (cancers diagnosed before 2001). The Summary Staging Guide is not
subject to frequent change.
C. SEER
Summary Staging Manual - 2000 (July 2001), published by the NIH, Public Health
Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIH publication number
01-4969 (cancers diagnosed in 2001 through 2003). The SEER Summary Staging
Manual is not subject to frequent change.
D. Collaborative Staging Manual and Coding
Instructions version 1.0 and subsequent editions, published by the NIH, Public
Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIH publication
number 04-5496 (cancers diagnosed in 2004 and later). The Collaborative Staging
Manual is subject to frequent change and is published electronically at
www.cancerstaging.org/cstage/index.html.
E. Data Acquisition Manual (revised edition
September 1994), published by the Commission on Cancer, American College of
Surgeons (cancers diagnosed in 1995). The manual is not subject to frequent
change.
F. Standards of the
Commission on Cancer, Volume II: Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS)
(1996 and 1998), published by the Commission on Cancer, American College of
Surgeons (cancers diagnosed in 1996 through 2002). The manual is not subject to
frequent change.
G. Facility
Oncology Registry Data Standards (FORDS) (2002 and subsequent editions),
published by the Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons (cancers
diagnosed in 2003 and later). The standards of the Commission on Cancer are
changed as often as every year.
H.
Manual for Staging of Cancer (4th edition 1992 and subsequent editions),
American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC), published by J.B. Lippincott
Company. The AJCC manual is not subject to frequent change.
I. SEER Program Coding and Staging Manual
2007; Johnson CH, Adamo M (eds.), National Cancer Institute, NIH publication
number 07-5581, Bethesda, MD 2007. The SEER manual is not subject to frequent
change.
Subp. 2.
Abstracts.
Alternatively, reports of case information that are required in
part
4606.3303 may consist of completed
electronic abstracts and must contain the information required in subpart
1.
Subp. 3.
Occupational data.
Hospitals, medical clinics, and physicians shall, upon request
of the commissioner, report as much information as is known concerning the
occupational history of cancer cases. The commissioner shall by publication in
the State Register request reports of such information when the following
conditions exist:
A. epidemiologic
surveillance and studies based on this information will assist in identifying
cancer risks in certain occupational groups; and
B. there is a specific, planned mechanism for
the surveillance and epidemiologic study of the cancer related to the
occupational group.
