Minimal Reporting Guidelines for the Treatment of Cancer Patients

Minimal Reporting Guidelines for the Treatment of Cancer Patients As laboratory physicians, our contribution to patient care is knowledge:  this is the starting point from which all informed therapeutic intervention proceeds.  How that knowledge is obtained and communicated is the art and science of our profession.  These minimal diagnostic guidelines are designed to be used as an aid, not a constraint, in that process.  The guidelines are presented in a specific format out of necessity, but any format that effectively communicates the necessary information in a given pathology report is valid. Furthermore, it is accepted that not all of the information specified by these guidelines may be available at the time of diagnosis.  Specific examples may include estrogen receptor or C-ERB B2 status of breast tumours or adequate information for meaningful pathologic staging.  A lack of this information should not prevent the timely release of a final diagnosis in any case.  It is assumed that the pathologist will provide all pertinent information that is available, either at the time of initial diagnosis, or further along in the course of the patient ’s care.Minimal Reporting Guidelines – Breast CarcinomaMicroscopic Diagnosis (Right/Left) Breast, (core biopsy, wire local. biopsy, lumpectomy, mastectomy specimen)   a)  Invasive carcinoma, histologic type &nb...
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