ACS American Cancer Society
ACOS American College of Surgeons
AJCC American Joint Committee on Cancer
AJCC Stage Staging system devised by the American College of Surgeons; Permits consistency in describing extent of neoplastic diseases in different anatomical parts, systems and organs.
Class of Case Analytical Diagnosed and treated at Decatur General Hospital after reference date. Diagnosed elsewhere but first treated at Decatur General Hospital.
Class of Case Non-Analytical Diagnosed and treated at Decatur General Hospital previous to reference date. Diagnosed and first treated elsewhere.
C/Next Solutions Computerized software system used to maintain information on the cancer patient and to compile statistical reports for the Cancer Committee.
Data Base Information compiled on each individual cancer patient.
ICDO International Classification of Disease for Oncology. World Health Organization standard codes for primary sites and morphology of cancer.
NCDB National Cancer Data Base.
NOS International Classification of Diseases coding term meaning Not Otherwise Specified. Used to denote that the subsite of a primary site was not specified.
PCE Patient Care Evaluation. Studies used by the Cancer Committee to assess quality of care and to make decisions regarding care of the cancer patient. The Cancer Committee is required by ACOS to perform two PCE Studies per year.
Perineal Pertaining to the perineum
Perineum The pelvic floor and the associated structures occupying the pelvic outlet; it is bounded anteriorly by the pubic symphysis, laterally by the ischial tuberosities, and posteriorly by the coccyx
Prostatectomy Surgical Removal of the prostate or of a part of it.
Perineal Prostatectomy Removal of the prostate through an incision in the perineum.
Radical Prostatectomy Removal of the prostate with its capsule, seminal vesicles, ductus deferens, some pelvic fasciae, and sometimes pelvic lymph nodes; performed via either the retropubic or the perineal route.
Retropubic Presvesical Prostatectomy Removal of the prostate through a suprapubic incision, but without entering the urinary bladder
Suprapubic Transvesical Prostatectomy Removal of the prostate through an incision above the pubis and through the urinary bladder
Reference Date: January 1, 1992. Date information was formally placed into the database on each cancer patient at Decatur General Hospital.