WHO criteria in tumor response

Last revised by Daniel J Bell ◉ on 1 Oct 2019

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Citation:

Nikolaev A, Bell D, St-Amant M, WHO criteria in tumor response. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 07 Jun 2023) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-57912

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-57912

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https://radiopaedia.org/articles/57912

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57912

Article created:

21 Jan 2018, Alexander Nikolaev

Disclosures:

At the time the article was created Alexander Nikolaev had no recorded disclosures.

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Last revised:

1 Oct 2019, Daniel J Bell ◉

Disclosures:

At the time the article was last revised Daniel J Bell had no recorded disclosures.

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Revisions:

4 times, by 3 contributors - see full revision history and disclosures

Systems:

Oncology

Sections:

Staging

Synonyms:

World Health Organisation criteria in tumour response

The WHO criteria were developed in the 1980s under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO) to standardize reporting of cancers in clinical trials. Nowadays, newer criteria often based on the WHO criteria (such as RECIST, mRECIST, Choi criteria, Lugano response criteria), have widely replaced the WHO criteria in clinical practice ¹.