NIHR BioResource Questionnaire - cancer types list

The NIHR BioResource questionnaire includes a question on cancer history, and also family history of cancer, which asks participants to specify the 'type' of cancer. This is submitted as a free text entry field, but needs to be coded to a list.

Our intention is to build up a picking list for this, compiled from the answers given by participants, and add to it as the recruitment process expands.

Ideally the data should be mapped to SNOMED CT or ICD codes, but the level of specificity in participants answers is likely to be low. So finding codes for an equivalent level of specificity may be difficult.

We are taking reference data from the national 2 week wait categories, but with some local amendments to reflect patient language.

​http://www.datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_dictionary/attributes/t/tran/two_week_wait_cancer_or_symptomatic_breast_referral_type_de.asp?shownav=0

01 - Breast cancer 
02 - Children's cancer 
03 - Lung cancer 
04 - Lymphoma and other haematological malignancies excluding leukaemia 
05 - Leukaemia 
06 - Stomach and other upper gastrointestinal cancers except:
06a - Liver cancer
06b - Pancreatic cancer
07 - Bowel and lower gastrointestinal cancers 
08 - Skin cancers 
09 - Gynaecological cancers 
10 - Brain or central nervous system tumours 
11a - Prostate cancer
11b - Bladder cancer
11c - Kidney cancer
11 - Other urological cancers
12 - Testicular cancer 
13 - Head and neck cancers 
14 - Sarcomas 
15 - Other cancer 

Add a free text for 'other' diagnosis

Each diagnosis should have its own date of diagnosis, rather than one box.