Kentucky Cancer Registrar's Wiki

Welcome to the Kentucky Cancer Registrars Wiki communication page! The following links will take you to pages within Wiki that contain helpful abstracting/coding information along with contact information. Your ideas for adding additional helpful information and for improvement are welcome! Please forward suggestions, comments, and questions to Tracy Sumler at tracy.sumler@uky.edu. If you experience difficulty logging into the Wiki page, please contact Clay Campbell at clay@kcr.uky.edu.

The KCR Abstractor’s Manual has been updated and will continue to be updated with new information, guidance, and clarifications on a regular basis. Any questions regarding this manual, please reach out to Tracy Sumler or David Rust.

2026 ABSTRACTING RESOURCES QUICK LINKS
  2026 DISEASE INDEX: https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/casefinding/

• Extent of Disease (EOD) General Instructions

  • https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/staging/eod/

• Extent of Disease (EOD)

  • https://staging.seer.cancer.gov/eod_public/list/3.2/

• SEER*RSA Staging Assistant

  • https://staging.seer.cancer.gov/eod_public/stage/3.2/

• SEER Coding & Staging Manual 2026

  • https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/codingmanuals/

• Pediatric Schema

  • https://staging.seer.cancer.gov/pediatric/list/1.2/

• Pediatric Resources

  • https://www.naaccr.org/pediatric-resources/

• SEER Summary Stage

  • https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/ssm/

• Solid Tumor Rules 2026

  • https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/solidtumor/current/STM_Combined.pdf

• Grade Manual

  • https://apps.naaccr.org/ssdi/list/?_gl=1*cn9h43*_ga*OTgxMTEyNTAwLjE2NzE4MjgwNTQ.*_ga_V7J8GWYK5P*MTcxMTAyNTcyNC4yOS4wLjE3MTEwMjU3MjQuNjAuMC4w

• Site Specific Data Items (SSDI)

  • https://apps.naaccr.org/ssdi/list/?_gl=1*cn9h43*_ga*OTgxMTEyNTAwLjE2NzE4MjgwNTQ.*_ga_V7J8GWYK5P*MTcxMTAyNTcyNC4yOS4wLjE3MTEwMjU3MjQuNjAuMC4w

• STORE manual

  • https://www.facs.org/media/iiajly3g/store-manual-2026.pdf

• Cancer PathCHART Morphology Validation List and Search tool

  • https://seer.cancer.gov/cancerpathchart/search/tool/

  • https://seer.cancer.gov/cancerpathchart/products.html

• ICD-O-3 Coding Guidelines & Updates (no update for 2025. Continue to use 2024 Annotated Histology List and 3.2 update).

  • https://www.naaccr.org/icdo3/

• AJCC Cancer Staging System

  • http://cancerstaging.org/references-tools/deskreferences/Pages/default.aspx

• SEER Inquiry System / SINQ

  • https://seer.cancer.gov/seer-inquiry/

• CAnswer Forum (AJCC, CoC, STORE, NAPBC, NAPRC)

  • https://cancerbulletin.facs.org/forums/

• SEER Drug Database

  • https://seer.cancer.gov/seertools/seerrx/

• SEER Hematopoietic & Lymphoid Neoplasm Database

  • https://seer.cancer.gov/seertools/hemelymph/

  • Revision History for the Hematopoietic Project: https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/heme/update.html#2025

• NPI Registry  / National Provider Identifier Physician Look Up

  • https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/search

• KCR Public Site

  • https://www.kcr.uky.edu/

• Appendix C Site Groups

  • https://seer.cancer.gov/manuals/2026/appendixc.html

Membership & Education

• National Cancer Registrars Association

  • https://www.ncra-usa.org/ 

  • CE Submission

    • https://www.ncra-usa.org/Certification/RecertificationSubmission

Cases diagnosed in 2025 & forward - RADIO-SENSITIZING CHEMOTHERAPY: If chemotherapy was provided as a radiosensitizer or radioprotectant code as chemotherapy treatment and support intent in your text. For cases diagnosed prior to 2025, do NOT code it as chemotherapy. This change has been made starting for cases diagnosed in 2025 forward.

INACCESSIBLE LYMPH NODE RULE: Page 23, Extent of Disease (EOD) 2018, General Coding Instructions (published October 2022):  https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/staging/eod/