Cancer Reporting

Reporting Sources

Each Idaho hospital, out-patient surgery center, and pathology laboratory is responsible for the complete ascertainment of all data on cancer diagnoses and treatments provided in its facility within six months of diagnosis. Sources for identifying eligible cases include hospitals, out-patient surgery centers, private pathology laboratories, free-standing radiation centers, physicians, death certificates, and other state cancer registries that have an Idaho resident diagnosed and/or treated for cancer.

When a cancer case is reported from more than one source the information is consolidated into one record.

For Cancer Registrars

Primary site, behavior, grade, and histology are coded according to the International Classification of Disease for Oncology. Data items are coded following the rules of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), the National Cancer Institute’s SEER program, and the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. The standard format documents address data items, data item definitions, and transmission specifications.

• 2025 Data Dictionary
  1. Idaho User Data Dictionary xml
  2. Idaho Reporting Manual
  3. Idaho Required Status Table
• 2023 Data Dictionary
  1. Idaho User Data Dictionary xml
  2. Idaho Reporting Manual
  3. Idaho Required Status Table
• 2022 Data Dictionary
  1. Idaho User Data Dictionary xml
  2. Idaho Reporting Manual
  3. Idaho Required Status Table
• 2021 Data Dictionary
  1. Idaho User Data Dictionary xml
  2. Idaho Reporting Manual
  3. Idaho Required Status Table
• CDRI Hospital Edits Metafile (v23B) - compressed zip file
  1. Idaho_Required_Edits_v23B_20230524.zip

  This Idaho metafile is built on the NAACCR v23B Edits metafile with the Idaho edit set and layout added for distribution to hospitals and vendors

• CDRI Hospital Edits Metafile (v22B) - compressed zip file
  1. Idaho_v22B_20220510_XML.zip

  This Idaho metafile is built on the NAACCR v22B Edits metafile with the Idaho edit set and layout added for distribution to hospitals and vendors

• CDRI Hospital Edits Metafile (v21B) - compressed zip file
  1. Idaho_v21B_20210422_XML.zip

  This Idaho metafile is built on the NAACCR v21B Edits metafile with the Idaho edit set and layout added for distribution to hospitals and vendors

For Pathology Laboratories

The scope of this document is limited to standards and guidelines to transmit cancer information from pathology laboratories to CDRI. The standard format documents address data items, data item definitions, and transmission specifications.

• Pathology Laboratory Electronic Reporting

For physicians

For Out-of-State Data Exchange

For data submission instructions, Please contact Denise Jozwik Email