not sure how Case Control Status adds anything if #13 diagnosis is completed
Typically, 'Primary Diagnosis' and 'Case Control Status' provide the same information, i.e. often we are are comparing disease vs. no disease. However, for pre-cancer studies, there might be no disease diagnosis for any of the individuals studied, but there still might be an internal case/control status based on risk factors. Or it's possible that case-control status is not really apparent until a later timepoint, when some individuals develop the disease.
So "Case Control Status" removed in the common cohort clinical data, and the original comment says this was redundant anyway. So closing as make a distinction is now moot.
Original comment:
Typically, 'Primary Diagnosis' and 'Case Control Status' provide the same information, i.e. often we are are comparing disease vs. no disease. However, for pre-cancer studies, there might be no disease diagnosis for any of the individuals studied, but there still might be an internal case/control status based on risk factors. Or it's possible that case-control status is not really apparent until a later timepoint, when some individuals develop the disease.