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

Thomas A Hope; Marc J Gollub; Supreeta Arya; David D B Bates; Dhakshinamoorthy Ganeshan; Mukesh Harisinghani; Kartik S Jhaveri; Zahra Kassam; David H Kim; Elena Korngold; Neeraj Lalwani; Courtney C Moreno; Stephanie Nougaret; Viktoriya Paroder; Raj M Paspulati; Jennifer S Golia Pernicka; Iva Petkovska; Perry J Pickhardt; Gaiane M Rauch; Michael H Rosenthal; Shannon P Sheedy; Natally Horvat

doi:10.1007/s00261-019-02170-5

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

Abdom Radiol (NY). 2019 Nov;44(11):3508-3517. doi: 10.1007/s00261-019-02170-5.

Authors

Thomas A Hope^{1

2

3}, Marc J Gollub⁴, Supreeta Arya⁵, David D B Bates⁴, Dhakshinamoorthy Ganeshan⁶, Mukesh Harisinghani⁷, Kartik S Jhaveri⁸, Zahra Kassam⁹, David H Kim¹⁰, Elena Korngold¹¹, Neeraj Lalwani¹², Courtney C Moreno¹³, Stephanie Nougaret^{14

15}, Viktoriya Paroder⁴, Raj M Paspulati¹⁶, Jennifer S Golia Pernicka⁴, Iva Petkovska⁴, Perry J Pickhardt¹⁰, Gaiane M Rauch⁶, Michael H Rosenthal¹⁷, Shannon P Sheedy¹⁸, Natally Horvat¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, M-391, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA. thomas.hope@ucsf.edu.
² Department of Radiology, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA. thomas.hope@ucsf.edu.
³ UCSF Helen, Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. thomas.hope@ucsf.edu.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
⁵ Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India.
⁶ Department of Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
⁷ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ University of Toronto University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁹ Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
¹⁰ School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
¹¹ Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
¹² Department of Radiology, Section of Abdominal Imaging, Wake Forest University and Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
¹³ Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
¹⁴ Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, Montpellier, France.
¹⁵ Department of Radiology, Montpellier Cancer Institute, INSERM, U1194, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
¹⁶ Department of Radiology, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
¹⁷ Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁸ Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Radiology, Hospital Sirio-Libanes, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Lexicon; MRI; Rectal cancer; Society of Abdominal Radiology Rectal & Anal Cancer Disease-Focused Panel; Staging.

MeSH terms

Anal Canal / anatomy & histology
Anus Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Anus Neoplasms / pathology
Anus Neoplasms / therapy
Consensus
Humans
Lymphatic Metastasis / diagnostic imaging
Neoplasm Staging
Rectal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Rectal Neoplasms / pathology
Rectal Neoplasms / therapy
Rectum / anatomy & histology
Societies, Medical
Terminology as Topic*

Grants and funding

R01 CA212148/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States