Cancer: Diagnosis
(asked on 11th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2019 to Question 215178, if he will list the (a) 17 cancers where no staging data is available and (b) 67 cancers where some of the specific tumour morphologies are unstageable.
For cancers diagnosed up to, and including 2017, the Tumour, Node, Metastasis (TNM7) classification of Malignant Tumours - 7th edition staging system is used. There are 17 cancer sites which have no staging rules in TNM7. These are listed in the following table.
ICD Code | Site |
C14 | Malignant neoplasm of other and ill-defined sites in the lip, oral cavity and pharynx |
C33 | Malignant neoplasm of trachea |
C37 | Malignant neoplasm of thymus |
C39 | Malignant neoplasm of other and ill-defined sites in the respiratory system and intrathoracic organs |
C46 | Kaposi's sarcoma |
C70 | Malignant neoplasm of meninges |
C71 | Malignant neoplasm of brain |
C75 | Malignant neoplasm of other endocrine glands and related structures |
C77 | Secondary and unspecified malignant neoplasm of lymph nodes |
C78 | Secondary malignant neoplasm of respiratory and digestive organs. |
C79 | Secondary malignant neoplasm of other and unspecified sites |
C80 | Malignant neoplasm without specification of site |
C88 | Malignant immunoproliferative diseases and certain other B-cell lymphomas |
C92 | Myeloid Leukaemia |
C93 | Monocytic Leukaemia |
C95 | Leukaemia of unspecified cell type |
C96 | Other and unspecified malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue |
This can be viewed on the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) website at the following link:
For the 67 cancers where some of the specific tumour morphologies are unstageable, data is not held in the requested format.