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: 06/11/XX
The first cancer-directed therapy (treatment given in an attempt to destroy or modify cancer tissue) was surgery.
Code: 46
Wide excision of lesion with margins more than 1 cm and less than or equal to 2 cm
Code the most extensive surgery if the patient has multiple surgical procedures of the primary site.
Code: 3
Number of regional lymph nodes removed not stated. Procedure is described as an inguinal lymph node dissection.
Code: 4
Nonprimary surgical procedure to distant site (wedge resection of RUL metastasis)
Code: 0
Surgery of the primary site was performed (Excision of right thigh lesion)