SPECIMEN NATURE

A classification which identifies the nature of the specimen reported on a PATHOLOGY LAB INVESTIGATION RESULT ITEM.

National Codes:

1 Primary tumour
2 Re-excision of primary tumour
3 Recurrence
4 Nodes
5 Metastatic site other than nodes
9 Not known

References:
National Cancer Data Set Version 1.3_ISB October 2002 

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Context Alias
plural SPECIMEN NATURES