The International Classification of Disease for Oncology (ICD-O) has long been an important coding resource for the cancer community, and EVS has long included it in our central mapping environment, NCI Metathesaurus (NCIm), with WHO permission. ICD-O-3.1 is the most recent version, approved by WHO/IARC in 2011 and published in 2013. In response to multiple user requests, we are now publishing the NCIm mappings of ICD-O-3.1 to NCIt. These are simple synonymy mappings for the codes and associated terms in both the Morphology and Topography axes, including the NCIm CUIs. We are working with multiple partners to cross-check these mappings, and to extend them to bi-axial coding for more specific cancers/neoplasms. As always, we invite user feedback (NCIThesaurus@nih.gov).
The Excel file displays the Morphology and Topology data sets on separate worksheets
The text data is in the form of a tab delimited file with the following columns:
Level | Term type | Term type desc |
1 (Axis name) | HT | Hierarchical term |
2 | HT | Hierarchical term |
3 | HT | Hierarchical term |
4 | PT, OP | Preferred term/Obsolete preferred term Obsolete terms are indicated in original file |
Related | RT, ORT | Related term/Obsolete related term Obsolete terms are indicated in original file |
Synonym | SY, IS | Synonym/Inactive (obsolete) synonym Obsolete terms are indicated in original files |