Revised RECIST Guideline Version 1.1: What Oncologists Want to Know and What Radiologists Need to Know

• DOI: 10.2214/ajr.09.4110
• Publication Date: 2010-07-22T18:36:53Z
• Authors: Mizuki Nishino; Jyothi P. Jaganna...; Nikhil H. Ramaiya; Annick D. Van den...
• Keywords: Diagnostic Imaging; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Neoplasms; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Humans; Guideline Adherence; Medical Oncology; Radiology; United States; 3. Good health

The objectives of this article are to review the new Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) guideline, version 1.1, highlighting the major changes in the new version compared with the original RECIST guideline (version 1.0), and to present case examples with representative imaging.Familiarity with the revised RECIST is essential in day-to-day oncologic imaging practice to provide up-to-date service to oncologists and their patients. Some of the changes in the revised RECIST affect how radiologists select, measure, and report target lesions.