The World Health Organization’s Programme for the Histopathoiogical Definition and Classification of Tumours

A brief description is given of the efforts of the World Health Organization to facilitate international communication and comparability of data in oncology by developing uniform classifications and nomenclatures for the microscopic definition of tumours. This has involved the collaboration of over 200 pathologists in 46 countries, in a network of 19 International Reference Centres. Ten of these Centres have already completed their work. Reports have begun to appear in the literature of studies based on the classifications they have prepared.

Der Autor gibt eine kurze Beschreibung der Bemühungen der WHO, die internationale Zusammenarbeit und Vergleichbarkeit von Befunden im Bereich der Krebsforschung durch die Entwicklung einheitlicher Klassifikationen und Benennungen für die mikroskopische Tumordefinition zu erleichtern. Im Rahmen dieser Aufgabe arbeiten mehr als 200 Pathologen in 46 Ländern in einem Netz von 19 Internationalen Referenz-Zentren zusammen. Zehn dieser Zentren haben die Arbeit bereits abgeschlossen. Die ersten Berichte über die erarbeitete Klassifikation sind bereits erschienen.

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