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SIU–ICUD on bladder cancer: pathology

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Many changes have been made during these last years and concepts for understanding bladder cancer have evolved. We make an update with the latest findings of the WHO (World Health Organistaion) 2016, ICCR (International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting) and other official organisms and try to show the latest developments. In this document we provide new consensus guidelines and insights. We kept this document short and concise providing consensus guidelines to clinicians for the best patient care, it should be easy to understand for a non pathologists. We focussed on several burning issues, such as the anatomical and histological understanding of the bladder wall, the prognostic significance of grading and the most challenging problems in staging, we underline our needs from the clinicians such as clinical information, we further discuss the histological subtypes of bladder cancer, which is an extremely important issue in the light of molecular classifications and give prognostic insights. Furthermore, we discuss the ICCR worldwide consensus reporting, urinary cytology with the Paris system and several issues such as frozen section specimen.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Hopital Tenon, HUEP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France

    Eva Compérat

  2. Department of Urology, Hospital Motol and 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Marek Babjuk

  3. Department of Pathology, Fundacio Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain

    Ferran Algaba

  4. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Mahul Amin

  5. Department of Urology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Mahul Amin

  6. McGill University Health Center, Glen Site, Office E4-4188, 1001 Decarie Blvd, Montréal, QC, H4A 3J1, Canada

    Fadi Brimo

  7. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, IUH Pathology Laboratory, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    David Grignon

  8. Departments of Pathology and Urology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Donna Hansel

  9. Charles University and University Hospital Plzen, Pilsen, Czech Republic

    Ondra Hes

  10. Department of Urology, Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Bernard Malavaud

  11. Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Victor Reuter

  12. Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Theo van der Kwast

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Protocol/project development: EC. Data collection or management: EC, MB, FA, MA, FB, DG, DH, OH, BM, VR, TK. Data analysis EC, MB, FA, MA, FB, DG, DH, OH, BM, VR, TK. Manuscript writing/editing EC, MB, FA, MA, FB, DG, DH, OH, BM, VR, TK/editing EC, MB, TK.

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Compérat, E., Babjuk, M., Algaba, F. et al. SIU–ICUD on bladder cancer: pathology. World J Urol 37, 41–50 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-018-2466-5

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