CoC Historical Documents for Cancer Registries
Documents posted on this page are for informational purposes only. For current documentation, see FORDS: Revised for 2011.
Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS)
Codes and coding rules used from 1996 through 2002.
Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (FORDS) (published in 2002) (2900K PDF)
Original complete FORDS manual. This document includes the complete original 2002 manual with updates posted through March 2003.
Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (FORDS): Revised for 2004 (4035K PDF)
The Revised for 2004 edition. This document includes the completely revised 2004 manual which included all revisions dated from 2002 through September 2004.
This document includes the 2004 manual plus updated/revised material for use in 2006.
Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (FORDS): Revised for 2007 (updated April 2007) (1370K PDF)
Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (FORDS): Revised for 2009 (7360K PDF)
This edition of FORDS introduced the changes to staging rules introduced during 2008, clarifications for coding embolization, and revised rules for coding in utero diagnosis and treatment dates.
Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (FORDS): Revised for 2010 (updated May 2010) (10.84MB PDF)
This edition of FORDS includes the new collaborative stage items for CS v2, new date transmission formats, and a number of new and converted data items.
Revised December 21, 2010