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Treatment (Set 1)
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(Reference: SEER Program Coding and Staging Manual 2004 (PDF), pgs 169-201 and Appendix C for Surgery of Primary Site codes; FORDS Manual (PDF), pgs 129-191 and Appendix B for Surgery of Primary Site codes.)
Code: 01/25/XX
The first cancer-directed therapy (treatment given in an attempt to destroy or modify cancer tissue) was radiofrequency ablation (RFA).
Code: 16
Heat- Radiofrequency ablation.
Code the most extensive surgery if the patient has multiple surgical procedures of the primary site.
Code: 0
No regional lymph nodes removed.
Code: 0
None.
Code: 0
Surgery of primary site was performed.



