SEER Training Modules
11/27/12 - The NCI is working on updating materials.

Quiz: Staging Systems

Extent of disease (EOD) coding is required only for some of the SEER programs funded through the National Cancer Institute.
True False
Summary staging is also called General Staging, California Staging, SEER Staging.
True False
The T element of The AJCC staging scheme designates the size and invasiveness of the primary tumor.
True False
The N component identifies the presence or absence of distant metastases, including lymph nodes that are not regional.
True False
FIGO Staging is based on clinical staging and careful clinical examination before any definitive therapy has begun.
True False
Astler-Coller and Turnbull stagings are also sometimes called Dukes or modified Astler-Coller.
True False
Jewett staging is a histologic staging scheme for prostate cancer.
True False
Gleason's score/system for grading of prostate cancer is a pathologic classification only and Gleason's score is not a staging system.
True False
Malignant melanoma is an example of a site where only one staging scheme with prognostic significance has been developed based on a different histologic and clinical criteria.
True False
The Ann Arbor staging was originally developed for Hodgkin's disease, and later expanded to include non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
True False