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

National Codes:

1	Residual regional nodal metastases
2	No evidence of regional nodal metastases
3	New regional nodal 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	NODAL STATUSES