NCI Metathesaurus (NCIm) is the central EVS terminology cross-mapping database. EVS extracted these ICD-O-3.1 to NCIt mappings from NCIm, where they are maintained along with mappings between many other sources.
This 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 |