Z08 ICD-10-CA category: Follow-up examination after treatment for malignant neoplasm

Z08 isn’t a code on its own. Choose one of the 6 codes beneath it, the one the documentation supports.

Official description

Z08

Follow-up examination after treatment for malignant neoplasm

ICD-10-CA · Canada

Codes in Z08

Z08 isn’t a code on its own. Open the code that matches what the note documents.

Notes for Z08

As CIHI prints them, with any note Z08 takes from the headings above it.

Includes

  • Medical surveillance following treatment

Excludes

Conditions classified elsewhere.

Note

  • Nonspecific abnormal findings disclosed at the time of these examinations are classified to categories (R70-R94).From Z00-Z13 Persons encountering health services for examination and investigation
  • This chapter should not be used for international comparison or for primary mortality coding.Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as "diagnoses" or "problems". This can arise in two main ways:(a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.(b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury. Such factors may be elicited during population surveys, when the person may or may not be currently sick, or be recorded as an additional factor to be borne in mind when the person is receiving care for some illness or injury.From Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)

Where Z08 sits

  1. 1ChapterChapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
  2. 2Block Z00-Z13Persons encountering health services for examination and investigation
  3. 3Category Z08Follow-up examination after treatment for malignant neoplasm

Source and release

Data release
ICD-10-CA · FY 2026–2027
Effective date
Apr 1, 2026
Publisher
CIHI

This page is built from the ICD-10-CA catalog that Vero Codes reads when it suggests codes: Canadian Institute for Health Information’s FY 2026–2027 release, imported from the publisher’s file and checked against it. The description, notes and structured data come from the same record.

Frequently asked questions

Is Z08 a valid ICD-10-CA code?

No. Z08 (Follow-up examination after treatment for malignant neoplasm) is a category heading in CIHI’s ICD-10-CA FY 2026–2027 release. It holds 6 codes; record the one the documentation supports.

Where is Z08 in ICD-10-CA?

Z08 sits under Z00-Z13 Persons encountering health services for examination and investigation, within Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99).

What coding notes apply to Z08?

ICD-10-CA lists Includes, Excludes, Note notes for Z08, including those from the headings it sits under. They are listed on this page with where each one comes from.

Which ICD-10-CA release does this page use?

It uses CIHI’s FY 2026–2027 release, in effect from Apr 1, 2026 to Mar 31, 2027. It is a reference: confirm the code against the current list and the payer’s rules before you submit it.