diff --git a/Modules/Filtering/PolarTransform/itk-module.cmake b/Modules/Filtering/PolarTransform/itk-module.cmake
index 3385c1af928..a2c939b82bb 100644
--- a/Modules/Filtering/PolarTransform/itk-module.cmake
+++ b/Modules/Filtering/PolarTransform/itk-module.cmake
@@ -1,23 +1,11 @@
-# the top-level README is used for describing this module, just
-# re-used it for documentation here
-get_filename_component(MY_CURRENT_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE}" PATH)
-file(READ "${MY_CURRENT_DIR}/README.md" DOCUMENTATION)
-
-# itk_module() defines the module dependencies in PolarTransform
-# PolarTransform depends on ITKCommon
-# The testing module in PolarTransform depends on ITKTestKernel
-# and ITKMetaIO(besides PolarTransform and ITKCore)
-# By convention those modules outside of ITK are not prefixed with
-# ITK.
-
-# define the dependencies of the include module and the tests
 itk_module(
   PolarTransform
   COMPILE_DEPENDS
     ITKTransform
   TEST_DEPENDS
     ITKTestKernel
-  DESCRIPTION "${DOCUMENTATION}"
+  DESCRIPTION
+    "Forward and inverse Cartesian/polar coordinate transforms for itk::Image."
   EXCLUDE_FROM_DEFAULT
   ENABLE_SHARED
 )