August 2020 Release Notes: Bugs, New Features/Projects, Custom Programs & Items Created. Date shown is the date completed, or the date last edited. If your version date is prior to the date listed, you may need to update your software to get any changes made.
Bugs & Fixes
COMPLETED:
- 9/1/2020 Exporting & Importing physician file “Date Last Changed” field formatted incorrectly. Corrected the program.
- 9/1/2020 Assisted NH Central in copying update & custom files from main system to subsystems & alternate drive.
- 9/1/2020 Updated NCDB resubmission program to run latest edits.
- 9/1/2020 API Errors corrected to display correctly when running.
- 8/24/2020 Incoming file from hospital with more than 4 courses of treatment formatted incorrectly; program written to identify those affected. Central registry to request resubmission of cases incorrectly formatted.
- 8/24/2020 Incoming file from hospital has wrong text in some cases. Program written to identify cases affected, resubmission of affected cases requested from hospitals.
New Features/Projects
COMPLETED:
- 9/1/2020 Setup of FTP site utilizing University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing center servers set up with files, users for software update & file transfers for future use.
Custom Programs & Items Created
COMPLETED:
- 9/1/2020 Hospitals separating from Regional Registry; program written to convert to hospital cases with accession numbers. Submitted files to hospitals separating.
- 8/21/2020 Custom program created to check all r_*.exe programs replaced during software update.
- 8/21/2020 Custom Items NAACCR number corrected. In case, user select: Go to -> Search for Field. If the enter string matches a custom item. The C will appear in front of the item number. For example C1501.
- 8/21/2020 Convert Zip to County program: Modifications -> Convert Zip to County. Added function to see if the zip code is in more than one county; if so, it creates a report that indicates what the other possible county is for manual review.
- 8/17/2020 Modifications -> Convert Zip to County; The button is labeled 'Update County/Zips table'. When you click the button it copies your current table: statezip to the file statezip.bak. Then it creates a new table from a file with all counties and zipcodes in the country.
We also wanted to make sure all users note the following sent from NAACCR Listserv for AJCC. RMCDS is staying up-to-date on these releases for v21:
Aug 7, 2020 3:57 PM
American Joint Committee on Cancer
August 7, 2020
The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) has released its Cancer Surveillance API, designed to support cancer registry staging for cases diagnosed in 2021 and later. The API includes a library that incorporates content from AJCC's electronic content and SEER*RSA.
The AJCC Cancer Surveillance API includes descriptions of the TNM categories and stage groups and is available to CDC/NPCR central registries and providers that use Registry Plus products to report to the central registry. The AJCC Cancer Surveillance API is also available to be licensed by commercial registry software vendors and other states or provinces that would like to use the product. For questions about availability and pricing, please contact the AJCC at ajcc@facs.org
The AJCC Cancer Surveillance API will be incorporated into Registry Plus products for NAACCR v21.
The AJCC Cancer Surveillance API supports the following staging data systems:
- AJCC TNM 8th ed. All T, N, M, and stage group tables for clinical, pathological, posttherapy clinical (yc) [no stage groups], and posttherapy pathological (yp) staging , and algorithms for selecting the appropriate chapter/disease for staging based on primary site, histology, and discriminators.
- AJCC Version 9 Cervix Uteri T, N, M definitions, stage group table for clinical, pathological, posttherapy clinical [no stage groups] and posttherapy pathological staging and algorithms for selecting the staging based on primary site, histology, and discriminators.
- EOD tables and algorithms for selecting the appropriate schema for staging based on primary site, histology, and discriminators. The EOD schema selection algorithm is also used for the following two sets of tables.
Directly coded Summary Stage 2018
Site-Specific Data Items (SSDIs) such as biomarkers and prognostic factors required or recommended by AJCC, including site-specific coding for tumor grade during the clinical, pathological, and both posttherapy staging periods.
Distribution of the AJCC Cancer Surveillance API
Recipients may not re-distribute the API or make copies of the licensed content for any reason.
Please direct questions to ajcc@facs.org