The status of a PATIENT's distant metastases, determined during a CANCER CLINICAL STATUS ASSESSMENT.

National Codes:

1	Residual distant metastases
2	No evidence of metastases
3	New distant metastases
4	Not assessed
5	Uncertain

References:
National Cancer Data Set Version 1.3_ISB October 2002 

This attribute is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	METASTATIC STATUSES