Publication History
3rd edition – December 2025
Updated to Union for International Cancer Control TNM9 Cancer Staging, including errata published October 2025. Replaced Figures 1, 2, and 5. Deleted previous Figure 3. Replaced Tables 4-7 with new Table 4.
- To reference this dataset please use the following citation: Lam A, Bourke MJ, Chen R, Fiocca R, Fujii S, Fujishima F, Jansen M, Kumarasinghe P, Langer R, Law S, Meijer S, Muldoon C, Novelli M, Shi C, Tang L, Nagtegaal ID (2025). Carcinoma of the Oesophagus Histopathology Reporting Guide. 3rd edition. International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting; Sydney, Australia. ISBN: 978-1-922324-66-5.
Minor update to the 2nd edition – Version 2.1 December 2021. Added the mixed neuroendocrine carcinoma ICD-O code to the WHO Classifications table.
2nd edition – December 2021
Minor revisions to commentary.
- To reference this dataset please use the following citation: Lam A, Bourke MJ, Chen R, Fiocca R, Fujii S, Fujishima F, Jansen M, Kumarasinghe P, Langer R, Law S, Meijer S, Muldoon C, Novelli M, Shi C, Tang L, Nagtegaal ID (2021). Carcinoma of the Oesophagus Histopathology Reporting Guide. 2nd edition. International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting; Sydney, Australia. ISBN: 978-1-922324-30-6.
1st edition – November 2020
- To reference this dataset please use the following citation: Lam A, Bourke MJ, Chen R, Fiocca R, Fujii S, Fujishima F, Jansen M, Kumarasinghe P, Langer R, Law S, Meijer S, Muldoon C, Novelli M, Shi C, Tang L, Nagtegaal ID (2020). Carcinoma of the Oesophagus Histopathology Reporting Guide. 1st edition. International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting; Sydney, Australia. ISBN: 978-1-922324-06-1.
- Read more on the Carcinomas of the oesophagus dataset from the journal article written by the dataset authors: Dataset for the reporting of carcinoma of the oesophagus in resection specimens: recommendations from the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting. Lam AK, Bourke MJ, Chen R, Fiocca R, Fujii S, Fujishima F, Jansen M, Kumarasinghe P, Langer R, Law S, Meijer SL, Muldoon C, Novelli M, Shi C, Tang L, Nagtegaal ID. Hum Pathol. 2021 Aug;114:54-65. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2021.05.003. Epub 2021 May 13.
Expert Committee
All editions of the dataset for Carcinoma of the oesophagus were developed by the following international team:
- Chair – Alfred Lam, Australia
- Series Champion and ICCR representative – Iris Nagtegaal, The Netherlands
Domain experts:
- Michael Bourke, Australia
- Renyin Chen, China
- Roberto Fiocca, Italy
- Satoshi Fujii, Japan
- Fumiyoshi Fujishima, Japan
- Marnix Jansen, UK
- Priyanthi Kumarasinghe, Australia
- Rupert Langer, Switzerland
- Simon Law, Hong Kong
- Sybren Meijer, The Netherlands
- Cian Muldoon, Ireland
- Marco Novelli, UK
- Chanjuan Shi, USA
- Laura Tang, USA
