‘First of its kind’ update for cancer surveillance standards
September 2024—New cancer surveillance standards for tumor site, histology, and behavior code combinations and associated terms rolled out this year, after pathologists reviewed the combinations in an all-new effort. It’s an initiative known as Cancer PathCHART, short for Cancer Pathology Coding Histology and Registration Terminology, led by the National Cancer Institute with the support of 10 collaborating organizations, among them the CAP and the World Health Organization. “Nobody but the NCI could’ve done this. It’s been a great project,” says Kay Washington, MD, PhD, professor of pathology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a past member of the CAP Cancer Committee and American Joint Committee on Cancer.