Radiogenomics of adult intracranial gliomas after the 2021 World Health Organisation classification: a review of changes, challenges and opportunities
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Publication Year 2023,Volume 13,Issue #11,Page 7572-7581
Journal Title
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
Publication Type
Review
Abstract
The classification of diffuse gliomas has undergone substantial changes over the last decade, starting with the 2016 World Health Organisation (WHO) classification, which introduced the importance of molecular markers for glioma diagnosis, in particular, isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) status and 1p/19-codeletion. This has spurred research into the correlation of imaging features with the key molecular markers, known as "radiogenomics" or "imaging genomics". Radiogenomics has a variety of possible benefits, including supplementing immunohistochemistry to refine the histological diagnosis and overcoming some of the limitations of the histological assessment. The recent 2021 WHO classification has introduced a variety of changes and continues the trend of increasing the importance of molecular markers in the diagnosis. Key changes include a formal distinction between adult- and paediatric-type diffuse gliomas, the addition of new diagnostic entities, refinements to the nomenclature for IDH-mutant (IDH(mut)) and IDH-wildtype (IDH(wt)) gliomas, a shift to grading within tumour types, and the addition of molecular markers as a determinant of tumour grade in addition to phenotype. These changes provide both challenges and opportunities for the field of radiogenomics, which are discussed in this review. This includes implications for the interpretation of research performed prior to the 2021 classification, based on the shift to first classifying gliomas based on genotype ahead of grade, as well as opportunities for future research and priorities for clinical integration.
Department(s)
Cancer Imaging
PubMed ID
37969636
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https://doi.org/10.21037/qims-22-1365
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