Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 561474 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 08/05/2014 |
Definition: | The target site of radiotherapy administered during the course of treatment for cancer. |
Cancer treatment—radiotherapy target site
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class: | Cancer treatment |
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Definition: | The course of cancer-directed treatment or treatments, with defined dates of commencement and cessation, given to the patient by a treatment provider or team of providers. This may include cancer-directed surgical treatment, radiation therapy and systemic agent therapy for cancer. It applies to the primary course of cancer treatment, treatment administered to the patient in response to disease progression or treatment administered to the patient in response to disease recurrence. |
Specialisation of: | Service/care event |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | Commission on Cancer, Standards of the Commission on Cancer Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS) Volume II (1998) Commission on Cancer, Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (2002) |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property: | Radiotherapy target site |
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Definition: | The site or region of the body where radiotherapy is administered. Radiotherapy is the treatment of disease by means of ionizing radiation. |
Property group: | Service provision event |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
Reference documents: | Dorland I, Newman WA 2003. Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary (30th edn). Philadelphia: Saunders p1564 |
Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Cancer treatment—radiotherapy target site Health!, Superseded 08/05/2014 |
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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Cancer treatment—radiotherapy target site for lung cancer, code N Health!, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—radiotherapy target site, code N[N] Health!, Standard 08/05/2014 |
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