Concordance with breast cancer pathology reporting practice guidelines Neal W Wilkinson, MD, FACS, Azin Shahryarinejad, MD, Janet S Winston, MD, Nancy Watroba, MPA, Stephen B Edge, MD, FACS  Journal of the American College of Surgeons  Volume 196, Issue 1, Pages 38-43 (January 2003) DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(02)01627-7

Figure 1 The guidelines require that the specimen and tumor sizes need to be described in three dimensions. Many of the nonconcordant reports included the tumor size in either one or two dimensions. In most of the cases marked as “other,” the maximum tumor dimension was provided only in the microscopic description with no reporting of the gross tumor size. All reports allowed for subsequent TNM staging despite failing to meet College of American Pathologists guidelines. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2003 196, 38-43DOI: (10.1016/S1072-7515(02)01627-7)