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Technical Report No. 31
Lyon 1998
67 pages + diskette
ISBN 92 832 1445 5
US$ 26
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Edited by D.M. Parkin, K. Shanmugaratnam, L. Sobin, J. Ferlay and S. Whelan
This publication provides a description of the recognised histological subtypes of the principal cancers, together with the appropriate ICD-O morphology codes. The distribution of these codes is exhaustive
(which is not the case for the International Histological Classification of Tumours, with which it is compatible). Similarities and differences with other proposed groupings are discussed.
The classification is that used in Cancer Incidence in Five Continents, Vol. VII and in IARC CancerBase No. 2. An accompanying software allows recoding of data to the proposed histological groups,
to permit comparative studies. Although the groupings may be used in any comparative study involving case series coded by histological type, they will be most useful for investigations of incidence and survival.
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