ARM 37.8.1808. REQUIRED RECORDS, INDEPENDENT CLINICAL LABORATORIES

(1) Whenever a clinical laboratory which is not owned or operated by a hospital provides laboratory services for any patient relating to a tumor designated as reportable by ARM 37.8.1801, it must collect, record, and make available to the department the following information about that patient: (a) name and current address of patient; (b) patient's address at time of diagnosis; (c) social security number; (d) name of spouse, if any; (e) race, sex, and marital status; (f) age at diagnosis, month, day, and year of birth; (g) date and place of initial diagnosis; (h) primary site of tumor (paired organ); (i) sequence of primary tumors, if more than one; (j) method of confirming diagnosis; (k) histology, including dates, place, histologic type, and slide number; (l) summary staging, including whether in situ, localized, regional, distant or unstaged, with no information, or whether AJCC or TNM staging is utilized, and, if so, the findings of the staging; (m) description of tumor and its spread, if any, including size in centimeters, number of positive nodes, number of nodes examined, and site of distant metastasis; (n) status at time of latest recorded information, i.e., whether alive or dead, tumor in evidence, or recurring, or status unknown; and (o) names of physicians primarily and secondarily responsible for follow up.