Cancer Therapy Look-up Tables: Pharmacy, Procedure & Diagnosis Codes

Cancer therapy "look-up" tables were created by extracting codes from published research, NCI Web sites (e.g., Procedure Codes for SEER-Medicare Analyses), health plan formularies, and expert clinician opinion (e.g., medical oncologists, oncology clinical pharmacists). These tables contain over 2,000 NDC and 300 procedure and diagnosis cancer treatment-related codes. The tables are updated when new products or codes are identified. The pharmacy, procedure, and diagnosis codes are stratified by class of product (e.g., chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy) and code type (e.g., ICD-9, HCPCS).

• All tables in an MS Access database (1,016 KB)
• All tables in an MS Excel spreadsheet (211 KB)
• Drugs table in:
  • Comma-Separated Values (CSV) format (70 KB)
  • a SAS dataset (169 KB)
• Procedures table in:
  • Comma-Separated Values (CSV) format (18 KB)
  • a SAS dataset (113 KB)
• Diagnoses table in:
  • Comma-Separated Values (CSV) format (1 KB)
  • a SAS dataset (9 KB)

These tables are also available, along with some programs for managing them, in this GitHub repository.

Caveats: Probably not every code in existence is present. Some of the drugs listed might be used in non-cancer settings. The class product may not be correct for all codes. There are codes for infusion additives that are pharmaceuticals but not drugs per se (e.g., D5W).

Please reference the Cancer Research Network (U19 CA79689) if you will be using or producing any reports or publications from these look-up tables.