ID for each individual person. NO duplicates.
Yr of Diagnosis
Yr of Diagnosis - numeric
1=ACOS facility;  0=non-ACOS
0=not done; 1=pos; 2=neg; 3=borderline; 8=ordered, dk results; 9=no info; blank=
1=Palmetto Health; 0=other
Yr of Death
Yr of Death - numeric
Age at diagnosis
1=White; 2=Black
County of residence at dx
Site in breast
1=Right; 2=Left; 3=Right or Left, nos; 4=Bilateral; 9=dk
Histology code
2=In Situ; 3=Malignant
00=only 1 primary; 01=1st of 2 or more; 02=2nd of 2 or more; 03=3rd of 3 or more
1=Well diff; 2=Mod. diff; 3=Poorly diff; 4=Undiff, anaplastic; 9=unstaged
0=In Situ; 1=Localized; 2=Regional, dir ext; 3=Regional, lymph; 4=Reg (2 & 3); 5
TNM stage
Size of primary
0=Death due to other cause; 1=Death due to BrCa; .=Alive
0=Deceased; 1=Alive
1=Pos; 2=Neg; 9=not done, dk, borderline(31), missing, no result
1=Pos; 2=Neg; 9=not done, dk, borderline(72), missing, no result
00=only 1 primary cancer; 08=one of 2+ cancers
1=Well diff; 2=Mod diff; 3=Poorly or Undiff/Anaplastic; 9=dk
0=In Situ; 1=Localized; 2=Regional; 4=Distant; 9=dk
11=ER+/PR+; 12=+/-; 21=-/+; 19=+/dk; 91=dk/+; 29=-/dk; 92=dk/-; 99==dk/dk
1=ER+/PR+; 2=ER-/PR-; 3=+/- or -/+; 9=one or other dk
0=alive; 1=death due to brca; 2=other cause of death
Calculated years of survival: dodyr-dxyr
Age at dx, in 5-yr categories
ER and Grade, from ercat and gradecat
Age at dx, 5-yr categories, 85 is 85+
Number of women in EA age stratum
Number of women in AA age stratum
If EA: Age-specific Incidence per 100,000: 1/eapopagecat
If AA: Age-specific Incidence per 100,000: 1/aapopagecat
Race & Age-specific Incidence per 100,000: 1/xxpopagecat
1st digit: Grade1,2,3 or dk(9); 2nd: ER neg(0), pos(1), dk(9)
0=White (EA); 1=Black (AA)
Numeric variable corresponding to tnm_path_stage
1=AJCC stage 1, 1A, 1B, 1C; 2=stage 2,2A,2B; etc ; 9=dk
Age at dx: 1=<50; 2=50 to 64; 3=64+ years
Weighting by 1/(incidence*100,000)
Number of lymph nodes examined, from Registry
Number of lymph nodes positive for cancer, from Registry
0=stage N0; 1=N1 (>=one node pos for ca); 9=dk; from exam.. & pos..
0=no nodes examined for cancer cells; 1=at least one node examined ; 9=dk
As nodecat, recoded to correspond to seer_stage as needed