Table 2.

Illustration of the status of definitions found in sources and the ad hoc assessment of agreement

T terms; listed according to the sequence in Table 1; S sources; S1: World Health Organisation; S2: ICD-11; S3: European Society of Pathology; S4: College of American Pathologists; S5: Royal College of Pathologists; S6: Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia; S7: International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting; S8: Dorland’s medical dictionary; S9: Oxford English Dictionary; S10: Merriam-Webster Dictionary; S11: National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute; S12: Medical Subject Headings; S13: PathologyOutlines; S14: Robbins and Cotran, Professional, 9^th Edition; S15: Schottenfeld and Fraumeni, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, 4^th Edition; S16: Wikipedia; R reviewers Status of definition: defined Status of definition: described, not defined Status of definition: no definition or description found Agreement between definitions as assessed by reviewers: agree Agreement between definitions as assessed by reviewers: partially agree Agreement between definitions as assessed by reviewers: do not agree