Collaborative Stage

Collaborative Stage is a unified data collection system designed to provide a common data set to meet the needs of all three staging systems (TNM, SEER EOD, and SEER SS). It provides a comprehensive system to improve data quality by standardizing rules for timing, clinical and pathologic assessments, and compatibility across all of the systems for all cancer sites.

Versions supported:

• 02.05.50 (originally released October 2013)

To use the Collaborative Stage algorithm use the CsDataProvider.

Staging staging = Staging.getInstance(CsDataProvider.getInstance(CsVersion.v020550));