Posted by Sandy Rodabaugh on February 28, 19100 at 14:48:52:
In Reply to: ACOS STAGING STANDARDS posted by Linda Lee on February 25, 19100 at 12:31:52:
: Are there any written documentations regarding
: wether or not a physician is responsibile for the
: clinical and pathological staging of a case when
: both can be documented. The physicians at my hospital
: will document one or the other, but not both. They
: are convinced that the college mandates that they
: only have to document the clinical or the pathological
: and not both. What do you say?
On page 141 of the ROADS manual the COC states that
they require approved programs to collect either
pathological or clinical stage for the sites included
in the AJCC Manual for Staging of Cancer.