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.

The CS algorithm for the staging client is maintained in its own repository:

https://github.com/imsweb/staging-algorithm-cs

To use the Collaborative Stage algorithm use the CsDataProvider.

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