Pathology Reporting of Colorectal Local Excision Specimens: Recommendations from the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR)

Modern medicine needs clear and adequate communication between different medical specialties. After colonoscopy, patients are risk stratified based on the number, size, and histologic features of resected polyps. Moreover, pathology reporting is the main source of data used for national bowel cancer screening programs, epidemiologic audits, and translational research.1 It is therefore important that a structured approach to pathology reporting of colorectal polyps is adopted worldwide to capture all necessary information for patient management and to allow the comparison of data between countries.