TY - JOUR
T1 - Invasive breast cancer reporting guidelines
T2 - ICCR, CAP, RCPath, RCPA datasets and future directions
AU - Laokulrath, Natthawadee
AU - Gudi, Mihir Ananta
AU - Deb, Rahul
AU - Ellis, Ian O.
AU - Tan, Puay Hoon
PY - 2024/2
Y1 - 2024/2
N2 - Pathological characteristics are essential for breast cancer staging and treatment; hence, regional and country-based pathology reporting protocols have been produced to facilitate comprehensive reporting by pathologists. However, these guidelines can vary in reporting variables, terminology definition, methods of measurement/scoring, which may lead to discordant information for clinicians and disagreement among pathologists. To obviate this, the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR) has recently produced datasets for histological reporting of breast cancer to unify the reporting elements, facilitating international comparability. In this review, we focus on the invasive breast carcinoma reporting datasets with the aim of providing an overview of ICCR recommendations in comparison with those published by regional professional organizations (the Royal College of Pathologists of the United Kingdom (UK) (RCPath), the United States (US) College of American Pathologists (CAP), the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA)), including relevant evidence with practical tips on accurate reporting of breast cancer resection specimens. In addition, we discuss some divergent aspects and suggest future directions for a unified breast cancer pathology reporting framework.
AB - Pathological characteristics are essential for breast cancer staging and treatment; hence, regional and country-based pathology reporting protocols have been produced to facilitate comprehensive reporting by pathologists. However, these guidelines can vary in reporting variables, terminology definition, methods of measurement/scoring, which may lead to discordant information for clinicians and disagreement among pathologists. To obviate this, the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR) has recently produced datasets for histological reporting of breast cancer to unify the reporting elements, facilitating international comparability. In this review, we focus on the invasive breast carcinoma reporting datasets with the aim of providing an overview of ICCR recommendations in comparison with those published by regional professional organizations (the Royal College of Pathologists of the United Kingdom (UK) (RCPath), the United States (US) College of American Pathologists (CAP), the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA)), including relevant evidence with practical tips on accurate reporting of breast cancer resection specimens. In addition, we discuss some divergent aspects and suggest future directions for a unified breast cancer pathology reporting framework.
KW - Breast cancer
KW - datasets
KW - invasive
KW - reporting parameters
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UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/westernsydney.edu.au?url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mpdhp.2023.11.001
U2 - 10.1016/j.mpdhp.2023.11.001
DO - 10.1016/j.mpdhp.2023.11.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85181708819
SN - 1756-2317
VL - 30
SP - 87
EP - 99
JO - Diagnostic Histopathology
JF - Diagnostic Histopathology
IS - 2
ER -
