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Rectal cancer lexicon: consensus statement from the society of abdominal radiology rectal & anal cancer disease-focused panel

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Standardized terminology is critical to providing consistent reports to referring clinicians. This lexicon aims to provide a reference for terminology frequently used in rectal cancer and reflects the consensus of the Society of Abdominal Radiology Disease Focused Panel in Rectal cancer. This lexicon divided the terms into the following categories: primary tumor staging, nodal staging, treatment response, anal canal anatomy, general anatomy, and treatments.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the following members of the Disease Focused Panel for their advice on the lexicon: Greg DePrisco, Randy Ernst, Harmeet Kaur, Chandrana Lall, Hiram Shaish and Regina Beets-Tan.

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  1. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, M-391, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA

    Thomas A. Hope

  2. Department of Radiology, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Thomas A. Hope

  3. UCSF Helen, Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Thomas A. Hope

  4. Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Marc J. Gollub, David D. B. Bates, Viktoriya Paroder, Jennifer S. Golia Pernicka & Iva Petkovska

  5. Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India

    Supreeta Arya

  6. Department of Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Dhakshinamoorthy Ganeshan & Gaiane M. Rauch

  7. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Mukesh Harisinghani

  8. University of Toronto University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Kartik S. Jhaveri

  9. Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada

    Zahra Kassam

  10. School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    David H. Kim & Perry J. Pickhardt

  11. Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Elena Korngold

  12. Department of Radiology, Section of Abdominal Imaging, Wake Forest University and Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

    Neeraj Lalwani

  13. Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Courtney C. Moreno

  14. Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, Montpellier, France

    Stephanie Nougaret

  15. Department of Radiology, Montpellier Cancer Institute, INSERM, U1194, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Stephanie Nougaret

  16. Department of Radiology, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Raj M. Paspulati

  17. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

    Michael H. Rosenthal

  18. Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, USA

    Shannon P. Sheedy

  19. Department of Radiology, Hospital Sirio-Libanes, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Natally Horvat

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Hope, T.A., Gollub, M.J., Arya, S. et al. Rectal cancer lexicon: consensus statement from the society of abdominal radiology rectal & anal cancer disease-focused panel. Abdom Radiol 44, 3508–3517 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-019-02170-5

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