HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Breast Cancer Data, Release 1

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Breast Cancer Data, Release 1 - US Realm (Draft for Comment)

This page is part of the Breast Cancer Data Logical Models and FHIR Profiles (v0.1.0: STU 1 Draft) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R3. No current official version has been published yet. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

BC NuclearGradeCS CodeSystem

The nuclear grade describes how closely the nuclei of cancer cells look like the nuclei of normal breast cells. In general, the higher the nuclear grade, the more abnormal the nuclei are and the more aggressive the tumor cells tend to be. The nuclear grade is a part of overall tumor grade.

This code system http://hl7.org/fhir/us/breastcancer/CodeSystem/oncology-NuclearGradeCS defines the following codes:

Code	Display	Definition
G1	Grade I - low grade or well differentiated	Grade I - low grade or well differentiated
G2	Grade II - Intermediate/moderate grade or moderately differentiated	Grade II - Intermediate/moderate grade or moderately differentiated
G3	Grade III - High grade or pooly differentiated	Grade III - High grade or pooly differentiated

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References

This code system is used by the following value sets:

NuclearGradeVS

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