SNOMED International has renewed its agreement with the American College of Surgeons (ACS), through its American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) program. The renewed three-year agreement advances both organizations’ commitment to improving the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients globally.
The renewal of the collaboration agreement furthers the work SNOMED International began in 2020 with the establishment of the Cancer Synoptic Reporting Project Group, which was formed to develop comprehensive SNOMED CT concepts suitable for structured pathology reports. It includes pathology experts who provide input from the community of practice on the development, maintenance and use of SNOMED CT in this specific domain. Their work contributed to the 2024 release of the SNOMED CT Clinical Implementation Guide for Cancer Synoptic Reporting, a comprehensive resource to facilitate standardized and structured reporting in cancer care.
Renewed commitment details
As part of the renewed agreement, the AJCC will provide SNOMED International with a comprehensive list of Allowable Values (codes), without definitions. The list will include allowable values in the AJCC Cancer Staging System. However, the AJCC will not provide definitions for these Allowable Values and users will require permission to use the definitions from the ACS. The AJCC may create other Allowable Values in future versions of the AJCC Cancer Staging System and will provide them to SNOMED CT at time of publication.
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