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Exercise #5
The patient's symptoms included headaches, double vision, vomiting, and drowsiness. A CT scan on November 1, 2004 showed a growth in the pineal gland. The patient had a biopsy of the pineal gland on November 15, 2004. The tumor pathology was pineocytoma. The patient began beam radiation to the pineal gland on December 8, 2004.
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- Surgical procedure of primary site
20 - Biopsy of tumor with a pathologic specimen - Surgical margins of primary site
7 - Margins not evaluable - Scope of regional lymph node surgery
0 - None (None instead of not applicable because pineal gland is not one of the sites listed in FORDS to use "not applicable" for lymph node surgery.) - Radiation treatment volume
04 - Brain limited - Regional treatment modality (radiation)
20 - External beam, NOS - Chemotherapy
00 - None - Hormone therapy
00 - None - Immunotherapy
00 - None - Hematologic transplant and endocrine procedures
00 - None
