New ICCR Digestive Tract datasets published
September 2026
In synchrony with updates to the WHO Classification of Digestive System Tumours, the ICCR has published five new datasets as follows:
- Carcinoma of the appendix
- Carcinoma of the gallbladder
- Liver metastasis resection
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the anus – local excision specimen
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the anus – abdominoperineal excision specimen
The ICCR Carcinoma of the appendix dataset was kindly sponsored by the Appendix Cancer PMP Research Foundation.
The ICCR Liver metastasis resection dataset was kindly sponsored by the Liver Metastasis Research Network.
The ICCR Squamous cell carcinoma of the anus datasets were kindly sponsored by the Anal Cancer Foundation.
The ICCR wishes to thank the Series Champion, Professor Iris Nagtegaal, Chairs, Professor Joseph Misdraji (Carcinoma of the appendix), Professor Irene Esposito (Carcinoma of the gallbladder), Professor Laura Rubbia-Brandt (Liver metastasis resection) and Professor Newton Wong (Squamous cell carcinoma of the anus), and all the members of the Dataset Authoring Committees for their exceptional work in developing these global datasets.
To access the Digestive Tract datasets, please click here.