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Thymic Epithelial Tumours

Scope

This dataset has been developed for thymic epithelial tumours (TET). It applies to resection specimens of the thymus and is applicable for thymoma, neuroendocrine tumours of the thymus and thymic carcinoma but does not cover germ cell tumours, soft tissue tumours, haematolymphoid neoplasms, and other primary thymic neoplasms.

Publication History

3rd edition – May 2022

The 3rd edition of this dataset includes changes to align the dataset with the 2021 World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Thoracic Tumours, 5th edition. Other minor updates were also included.

  • To reference this dataset please use the following citation: Roden AC, den Bakker MA, Fang V, Jain D, Marx A, Moreira A, Rajan A, Stroebel P, Szolkowska M, Cooper W (2022). Thymic Epithelial Tumours Histopathology Reporting Guide. 3rd edition. International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting; Sydney, Australia. ISBN: 978-1-922324-32-0.
  • Read more on the Thymic epithelial tumours dataset (3rd edition) from the journal article written by the dataset authors: Dataset for reporting of thymic epithelial tumours: recommendations from the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR). Roden AC, Judge M, den Bakker MA, Fang W, Jain D, Marx A, Moreira AL, Rajan A, Stroebel P, Szolkowska M, Cooper WA. Histopathology. 2023 Dec;83(6):967-980. doi: 10.1111/his.15047. Epub 2023 Sep 18.

2nd edition – September 2017

Updated following the publication of the 8th edition of TNM staging. Other minor updates were also included. 

  • To reference this dataset please use the following citation: Nicholson AG, Chen G, den Bakker MA, Detterbeck F, Marchevsky AM, Marino M, Marx A, Mukai K, Roden AC, Yang WI, Hirschowitz L (2017). Thymic Epithelial Tumours Histopathology Reporting Guide. 2nd edition. International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting; Sydney, Australia. ISBN: 978-1-925687-11-8.

1st edition – June 2016

  • Read more on the Thymic epithelial tumours dataset (1st edition) from the journal article written by the dataset authors: Dataset for reporting of thymic epithelial tumours: recommendations from the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR). Nicholson AG, Detterbeck F, Marx A, Roden AC, Marchevsky AM, Mukai K, Chen G, Marino M, den Bakker MA, Yang WI, Judge M, Hirschowitz L. Histopathology. 2017 Mar;70(4):522-538. doi: 10.1111/his.13099. Epub 2016 Nov 28.

Expert Committee

The 3rd edition of the dataset for Thymic epithelial tumours was developed by the following international team:

  • Chair – Anja Roden, USA
  • Series Champion – Wendy Cooper, Australia

Domain experts:

  • Michael den Bakker, The Netherlands
  • Vincent Fang, China
  • Deepali Jain, India
  • Alexander Marx, Germany
  • Andre Moreira, USA
  • Arun Rajan, USA
  • Philipp Stroebel, Germany
  • Malgorzata Szolkowska, Poland

Authors of previous editions of this dataset are available here

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