Members of the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR) recently participated in the 37th European Congress of Pathology (ECP) held in Vienna, 6-10 September 2025.

The ICCR, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and European Society of Pathology (ESP) co-hosted a Special joint session on 9 September titled “Next level tumour classification”. The Special joint session was well attended and chaired by Professors Dilani Samarawickrema Lokuhetty, Kieran Sheahan and Peter Schirmacher.

The Special joint session included the following presentations (among others):

• Professor Dilani Samarawickrema Lokuhetty presented on the World Health Organization (WHO) 6th edition and lessons learned from the first volumes.
• A/Professor Scott Campbell presented on coding and what a pathologist needs to know.
• Professor Kieran Sheahan introduced the ICCR translation work.
• Professor Fernando Schmitt presented on the ICCR dataset translation work, specifically NCT generation challenge to structured pathology reporting.

A session was also held on 10 September titled “Synoptic reporting in GI pathology”. The session included the following presentations (among others):

• Professor Iris Nagtegaal presented on the ICCR datasets – the European/Netherlands perspective.
• A/Professor Christophe Rosty presented on datasets in GI pathology (including ICCR datasets) – contribution and collaboration with IARC/WHO.
• Professor Kieran Sheahan presented on the ICCR datasets in GI pathology – the way forward.

The ECP which bought together nearly 6,000 delegates from all continents was a great success showcasing outstanding scientific content from experts around the world.