Diagnosing and treating cancer early are among the most pressing health challenges that the world faces. Quite simply, without accurate, quality pathological diagnoses, patients cannot be treated. Pathologists’ reports on cancer biopsies and resections provide the critical data—diagnosis, staging, and critical prognostic and predictive information—required for clinical management and feeding information into cancer registries.
In many of the countries where C/Can works, pathology reports are still written out in narrative form, with no guidelines or standardisation, despite the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting’s (ICCR) internationally-agreed, evidence-informed datasets, which are aimed specifically at ensuring complete and conformant cancer reports for treatment and epidemiology.