Mission
To provide standards for research and the appraisal of evidence for tumour classification and cancer diagnosis to facilitate rapid translation into clinical diagnostic practice
Vision
International collaboration to provide high-level, up-to-date evidence promotes standards and enhances best practices to underpin the classification of tumours
Goals
- To harmonize cancer-related research and data generated by IC3R members, making them comparable and reproducible
- To enhance international standard-setting for analytical procedures and diagnosis in pathology
- To establish quality standards for accreditation of research laboratories
- To produce evidence evaluations for clinical settings, cancer research, and epidemiology
- To identify information and research gaps (e.g. non-uniform annotations, classifications, bioinformatics, computational pathology, or clinical chemistry)
- To promote data sharing and knowledge exchange among a broad community under specific terms
- To promote evidence-based pathology and evidence-based practice in related fields
- To encourage communication between health systems, industry, and regulatory bodies