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This is the CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION CODE which classifies the combination of tumour, node and metastases into stage groupings where the TNM TYPE is 4. Overall TNM stage and the CANCER STAGING TYPE is 1. Final pre-treatment stage.

UICC (Union Internationale Contre Cancer) coding is used. 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	TNM CATEGORIES (FINAL PRETREATMENT)