Cause of death

Module: family-history

Module Contents

  1. cause-of-death


1CENTER_NOnumber (2,0)Required:true
Unique identifier for a CFR center
Allowable Values
11Sinai Health Systems (formerly Cancer Care Ontario)
12Cedars-Sinai & Cleveland Clinic (formerly USC Consortium)
13University of Melbourne
14University of Hawaii Cancer Center
15Mayo Clinic
16Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
17UCSF/University of California at San Franscisco (formerly CPIC, originally NCCC)


2PERSON_ID (*PK)number (12,0)Required:true
Identifier for person that is globally unique within the BC-CFR central database. *This field is the primary key for the table.

3CRC_CODnumber (1,0)Required:true
Flag indicating the immediate or underlying cause of death was due to colorectal cancer. ICD-O: C18[0-9]*, C199, C209, C218, C260 ICD-9: 153.[0-9]*, 154.[0-3]* Text: includes colon, colorectal, bowel, large intestine
Allowable Values
1 Cause of death involved CRC


4COD_IMM_ICDstring (6)Required:true
First, primary or immediate cause of death in ICD. NOTE: Some sources, like SEER, do not give a primary/immediate Cause of Death but only a derived underlying cause of death. In these cases this element should be marked ‘999999=unknown’ and the derived value go into COD_UND1_ICD.

5COD_IMM_TXTstring (250)Required:false
First, primary or immediate cause of death in text if ICD not available

6COD_UND1_ICDstring (6)Required:false
First underlying cause of death in ICD. Note for some sources, like SEER, this maybe a derived COD.

7COD_UND1_TXTstring (250)Required:false
First underlying cause of death in text if no ICD

8COD_UND2_ICDstring (6)Required:false
2nd underlying cause of death in ICD

9COD_UND2_TXTstring (250)Required:false
2nd underlying cause of death in text if no ICD

10COD_UND3_ICDstring (6)Required:false
3rd underlying cause of death in ICD

11COD_UND3_TXTstring (250)Required:false
3rd underlying cause of death in text if no ICD

12COD_UND4_ICDstring (6)Required:false
4th underlying cause of death in ICD

13COD_UND4_TXTstring (250)Required:false
4th underlying cause of death in text if no ICD

14COD_UND5_ICDstring (6)Required:false
5th underlying cause of death in ICD

15COD_UND5_TXTstring (250)Required:false
5th underlying cause of death in text if no ICD

16COD_UND6_ICDstring (6)Required:false
6th underlying cause of death in ICD

17COD_UND6_TXTstring (250)Required:false
6th underlying cause of death in text if no ICD

18COD_UND7_ICDstring (6)Required:false
7th underlying cause of death in ICD

19COD_UND7_TXTstring (250)Required:false
7th underlying cause of death in text if no ICD

20COD_UND8_ICDstring (6)Required:false
8th underlying cause of death in ICD

21COD_UND8_TXTstring (250)Required:false
8th underlying cause of death in text if no ICD

22COD_UND9_ICDstring (6)Required:false
9th underlying cause of death in ICD

23COD_UND9_TXTstring (250)Required:false
9th underlying cause of death in text if no ICD

24COD_UND10_ICDstring (6)Required:false
10th underlying cause of death in ICD

25COD_UND10_TXTstring (250)Required:false
10th underlying cause of death in text if no ICD

26COD_SOURCEnumber (1,0)Required:false
Source of Cause of Death for all primary and underlying causes. This should be from the single best source the site has for that individual. General rule of thumb for selecting COD_SOURCE when more than 1 is applicable should be NDI > SEER/Other Cancer Registry > Medical Record > Linkage to other databases > Death Certificate > Family member/spouse/contact. Though this might vary by site. NOTE: The source of the ICD code is derived as follows. For COD_SOURCE options 1,2,3,4,5 & 9 the source of the ICD code is the same as COD_SOURCE. For COD options 6,7,8 the ICD code source is “Assigned by Site”.
Allowable Values
1SEER
2Cancer registry
3NDI US
4NDI AUS
5Linkage_Other database, e.g. Dept of Health
6Death certificate
7Medical record
8Other family member, spouse, friend (contact)
9Unknown


27COD_ICD_VERSIONnumber (2,0)Required:false
Version of ICD for all cause of deaths from COD source. NOTE: this value is sometimes determined by the ICD version in use at time of death which is usually accurate but not perfect especially if the death occurred in early January when a code change might have been in progress.
Allowable Values
2ICD-2
3ICD-3
4ICD-4
5ICD-5
6ICD-6
7ICD-7
8ICD-8
9ICD-9
10ICD-10
88Not Applicable
99unknown