European Association of Urology Guidelines Panel on Renal Cell Carcinoma Update on the New World Health Organization Classification of Kidney Tumours 2022: The Urologist's Point of View

Milan Hora; Laurence Albiges; Jens Bedke; Riccardo Campi; Umberto Capitanio; Rachel H Giles; Börje Ljungberg; Lorenzo Marconi; Tobias Klatte; Alessandro Volpe; Yasmin Abu-Ghanem; Saeed Dabestani; Sergio Fernández-Pello; Fabian Hofmann; Teele Kuusk; Rana Tahbaz; Thomas Powles; Axel Bex; Kiril Trpkov

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2022.11.001

European Association of Urology Guidelines Panel on Renal Cell Carcinoma Update on the New World Health Organization Classification of Kidney Tumours 2022: The Urologist's Point of View

Eur Urol. 2023 Feb;83(2):97-100. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2022.11.001. Epub 2022 Nov 23.

Authors

Milan Hora¹, Laurence Albiges², Jens Bedke³, Riccardo Campi⁴, Umberto Capitanio⁵, Rachel H Giles⁶, Börje Ljungberg⁷, Lorenzo Marconi⁸, Tobias Klatte⁹, Alessandro Volpe¹⁰, Yasmin Abu-Ghanem¹¹, Saeed Dabestani¹², Sergio Fernández-Pello¹³, Fabian Hofmann¹⁴, Teele Kuusk¹⁵, Rana Tahbaz⁹, Thomas Powles¹⁶, Axel Bex¹⁷, Kiril Trpkov¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, University Hospital Pilsen and Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czechia. Electronic address: horam@fnplzen.cz.
² Department of Cancer Medicine, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France.
³ Department of Urology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; German Cancer Consortium and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁴ Unit of Urological Robotic Surgery and Renal Transplantation, University of Florence, Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy; Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; European Association of Urology Young Academic Urologists Renal Cancer Working Group, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Urology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Division of Experimental Oncology/Unit of Urology, Urological Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
⁶ International Kidney Cancer Coalition, Duivendrecht, The Netherlands.
⁷ Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
⁸ Department of Urology, Coimbra University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁹ Department of Urology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁰ Department of Urology, University of Eastern Piedmont, Maggiore della Carità Hospital, Novara, Italy.
¹¹ Department of Urology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
¹² Department of Translational Medicine, Division of Urological Cancers, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
¹³ Department of Urology, Cabueñes University Hospital, Gijón, Spain.
¹⁴ Department of Urology, Sunderby Sjukhus, Umeå University, Luleå, Sweden.
¹⁵ Department of Urology, Homerton University Hospital, London, UK.
¹⁶ The Royal Free NHS Trust and Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
¹⁷ The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, London, UK; Department of Urology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁸ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Precision Laboratories, Calgary, Canada.

PMID: 36435661
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2022.11.001

Abstract

The fifth edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of urogenital tumours published in 2022 will be implemented in the European Association of Urology guidelines on renal cell carcinoma for 2023. Here we provide an update summarising changes in the new WHO classification of renal tumours from a clinician perspective.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Carcinoma, Renal Cell* / pathology
Humans
Kidney Neoplasms* / pathology
Urologists
Urology*
World Health Organization