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APPENDIX B Clarification of Cancer Groupings Used in Reporting Results, with Correspondence to NIOSH Cause-of-Death Codes and ICD Codes for Cancers
Pages 707-716

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From page 707...
... Second, it should be apparent into which groupings specific cancer diagnosis falls. The explicitly stated cancer grouping reviewed in prior updates left a few gaps in the full range of cancer types (as indicated in italics in Table B-1)
From page 708...
... Codes for malignant neoplasms span the ICD-9 range 140.0–208.9, NIOSH's major categories 02–10, or NIOSH's more specific minor categories 004–040. The NIOSH death codes for neoplasms provide comprehensive scaffolding for organizing the committee's reviews and conclusions by cancer type that is somewhat simpler than ICD classifications, but maps completely to the ICD system as it has evolved.
From page 709...
... 03 Digestive organs and peritoneum "Gastrointestinal" 008 Esophagus 150 009 Stomach 151 010 Intestine except rectum Small intestine 152 Colon (large intestine) 153 011 Rectum 154 709 continued
From page 710...
... Lung and bronchus 162.2–162.9 017 Pleura 163 018 Other respiratory Nasal cavity, middle ear, and accessory sinuses (160, above with oral and pharyngeal) Thymus, heart, and mediastinum 164 (164.0, below with endocrine; 164.1, below with soft-tissue sarcoma)
From page 711...
... 187 08 Urinary system 026 Kidney (including renal pelvis and ureter) "Renal" 189.0–189.2 027 Bladder and other urinary organs "Urinary bladder" 188, 189.3–189.9 Bladder 188 Urethra, paraurethral glands, other and 189.3–189.9 unspecified urinary (discontinuity with ICD codes)
From page 712...
... , 273.3 039 Multiple myeloma 203 (excluding 203.1)
From page 713...
... Acute myeloid Acute 205.0 Acute erythremia and erythroleukemia 207.0 Megakaryocytic leukemia 207.2 Chronic myeloid 205.1 Other myeloid 205.2–205.3, 205.8–205.9 Monocytic Acute monocytic 206.0 Chronic monocytic 206.1 Other monocytic 206.2–206.9 Other leukemia Other acute 208.0 Other chronic 207.1, 208.1 Aleukemic, subleukemia, and "not otherwise 203.1, 207.2, 207.8, 208.2–208.9 specified" a Boldface cancer (sub) site: most comprehensive grouping for which conclusion was drawn in Update 2004.
From page 714...
... 171.0–171.9, 164.1 C38.0, C47.0–C47.9, C49.0–C49.9 Skin Malignant melanomas 172.0–172.9 C43.0–C43.9 Other malignant skin neoplasms 173.0–173.9 C44.0–C44.9 Breast (male and female)
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... Acute myeloid 205.0, 207.0, 207.2 C92.0, C92.4–C92.5, C94.0, C94.2 Chronic myeloid 205.1 C92.1 Other myeloid 205.2–205.3, 205.8–205.9 C92.2–C92.3, C92.7, C92.9 Monocytic Acute monocytic 206.0 C93.0 continued
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... :1–32. Ries LAG, Eisner MP, Kosary CL, Hankey BF, Miller BA, Clegg L, Mariotto A, Fay MP, Feuer EJ, Edwards BK (eds)


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