Encoding is Retired - no longer used in dataset
Name: Tumour behaviour
Description: Tumour behaviour codings used by UK Cancer Registry
This is a hierarchical tree-structured dictionary which uses integers to represent categories or special values.
| Coding can be downloaded here as a tab-separated file. |
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| Coding | Meaning | Selectable | Node | Parent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Benign | Yes | 1 | Top |
| 1 | Uncertain whether benign or malignant | Yes | 2 | Top |
| 2 | Carcinoma in situ | Yes | 3 | Top |
| -1 | Malignant | No | 4 | Top |
| 3 | Malignant, primary site | Yes | 5 | 4 |
| 6 | Malignant, metastatic site | Yes | 6 | 4 |
| 9 | Malignant, uncertain whether primary or metastatic site | Yes | 7 | 4 |
| 5 | Malignant, microinvasive | Yes | 8 | 4 |
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