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EOD Mets

Coding mets for bladder is based on several different factors

No evidence of metastatic disease
- Default to no metastatic disease when there is no documentation on the metastatic workup.
Distant lymph node involvement
- Intraaortacaval
- Paracaval
- Superior mesenteric
Other metastatic involvement
- Most common metastatic sites for bladder are bone, liver, brain.

See SEER*RSA, Bladder, for the current version of EOD and complete coding instructions for the Bladder schema.

Updated: April 22, 2025

Suggested Citation

SEER Training Modules: EOD Mets. U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. Cited 30 December 2025. Available from: https://training.seer.cancer.gov.

EOD Mets

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