Clinical utility of histopathology data: cancers of the testis and urinary bladder

Histopathology data form the basis of most oncological patient management. Pathology guidelines therefore recommend sets of core data items that should be reported in each specimen. The clinical utility of a particular data item depends on the clinical scenario. Awareness of how these data are used to guide patient management could enable pathologists to focus their resources on clinically important issues. For example, it is generally critical to identify even a minor nonseminomatous component in a predominantly seminomatous testicular germ cell tumour as such patients would be managed as a nonseminoma.
Source: Diagnostic Histopathology - Category: Pathology Authors: Tags: Mini-symposium: uropathology reporting: communication and clinical utility of data Source Type: research