is cancer staging IV or 4 ...

This is exactly what the doctor says. I'm unsure how to write it out. Any help would be appreciated. This patient is known to have metastatic colon cancer. He was first diagnosed in 2006 and was originally PT4 PN2 NXG2 R1 and received chemotherapy and radiation therapy but had recurrent disease. PT4 PN2 NXG2 R1 is what I need help with. ...

I have a doctor dictating a cancer stage for colon cancer, this is what she dictated. I am sure this is not typed right. Could someone help me out with this? Stage IIc PT4 BPN0PMX. ...

Oropharyngeal carcinoma. Stage 4A? Thanks for any help. ...

I have seen the staging/grading represented in conflicting ways and do not own a book of style. Can someone tell me if this is a correct way to represent renal cell carcinoma staging: Stage pT3a, pNx, pMx Thank you!!!! ...

Dr. says: Endometrial adenocarcinoma, stage 3c2 grade 2, currently undergoing chemotherapy. Is that written right? ...

I think I'm mainly concerned about the plain " (i) behind the T2 ?? ...

Does anyone know the correct way to transcribe breast cancer staging when dictated as follows: pT2 "sentinel node 0" MX. I am not sure how to transcribe the dictated "sentinel node 0." Thanks for your help. ...

Sounds like N more than M. ...

Cancer staging. Stage IV A, Stage IVA, or Stage 4A? ...

In a cancer report, the doctor gave a diagnosis of Stage IIIC T4aN2M0 cancer. Then she later said, He was staged as a pathological T4aN2a. She added the a and dropped the M0. I listened very carefully for the diagnosis and later in the problem list. She does not add the a after the N2 in either place. Does anyone know why it is N2a in one place but just N2 in the DX? ...

how do I correctly write prostate cancer stages? ...

Help would be greatly appreciated because I can't locate it anywhere and have not in the last 3 years of doing Ortho had a doctor dictate this way...which I have transcribed verbatim. " Mr. X is a 33-year-old male, with a history of Chrohn’s disease, who has a history of increasing left hip pain. X-rays, MRI, and plain films are consistent with a collapsed femoral head (stage IV B2). " ...

Doc dictates "The patient has a history of chronic kidney disease (stage 4 to stage 5) ?!?! is that how it is transcribed per the BOS II ... I just moved and cannot locate my book for verification. ...

Gleason score 4 + 5 = 9 involving 35% of the specimen, 1 out of 1 cores contained cancer, linx of cancer was 0.35 cm. She says the linked or linx twice in the document. ?? ...

History of a stage IA, T1bN0M0 "B zero" cutaneous B-cell lymphoma follicle type. Doc says twice, so not a mistake. I guess it might be related to B symptoms...but can't document it. ...

Is there anything similar to a "whip/Whipp/Wipp shave for cancer? Thanks in advance. ...

Pulmonary evaluation of the same was done with CT imaging which was performed on 01/07/2010. Findings were significant for a right upper lobe opacity with mild FTG uptake with a (sounds like) "suvie" ???? im lost! ...

I am still pretty new to oncology and am really baffled by this one. Gyne/onologist: "XXX returns having last been seen in 2010. She has been followed at MD Anderson in the interim. She has had a recurrence of her disease, was treated with s/l "Electrosol" for a long period of time" I just keep thinking about the dishwasher detergent! And it is pretty clear, as well. Not finding anything close to this. Can anyone help here?? I am really baffled.&n ...

When the doctor dictates: Mr. Frippenwapper has "colon CA" .... do you use 'cancer' or 'carcinoma' for the "CA" or do you just leave it as "CA" ? ...

When typing cancer stages, is it Stage 3, Stage III, stage... ...

s/l aceloid? tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma Thanks ...

Is it -- Dukes A Duke's A Dukes' A I find it all three ways. Thanks for any help in clarifying. ...

Has anyone every heard of a cancer that sounds like, or it's abbreviation can sound like, Endus or Engus? I'm just assuming it's cancer b/c the next line is "May benefit from Rituxan after oncology." I guess in reality, it could really be anything. ...

Ovarian cancer - s/l "sido" reduction. Does anyone know what this is? ...

S/l Colbium/cobia/combium CT was used planning for patient's treatment. ...

Cranivimab, the doctor spelled it. Has anyone ran across this before. ...

This is a patient who is on third line chemotherapy for metastatic small cell lung cancer. He has progressed through carbotaxol, carbo VP16 and is now on topotecan. I can't find carbotaxol or carbo VP16 and I don't have good chemo references. Is carbotaxol carboplatin and taxol? I guess my question is, should it be written carboplatin/taxol and carboplatin VP1-16? Or how should this be written? Help, I'm at a loss here. TIA!! :-) ...

Oncology/gyne office note dictation: "Patient with recurrent ovarian carcinoma on s/l six line therapy." Is anyone familiar with this term, or is he saying something else completely? Help! ...

I need some guidance regarding how to type the following staging: Ytt3 TN1a I am new to oncology and the Y thing threw me. Thanks! ...

is cancer staging IV or 4 ... - me

Stage should be in Roman numerals - rpCMT

Cancer staging - Anonymous

Here is something I use . . . - SoCal MT

this is good to have; thanks. - n/m

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