Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM ET
Discover how next-day comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) is possible with the Oncomine Comprehensive Assay Plus on the Genexus System—delivering both speed and accuracy.
Webinar presenters Jane Bayani, MHSc, PhD, Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Diagnostic Development, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada, and Nicola Normanno, MD, Scientific Director, IRCCS Romagnolo Institute for the Study of Tumors, Italy, and Morten Grauslund, PhD, Molecular Biologist, Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet/Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Thermo Fisher Scientific. For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic applications.
Thursday, April 30, 2026, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss how Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) is utilizing
the oncoReveal® Nexus 21-gene panel to redefine turnaround time and actionable insights
in cancer care. Dr. Ewalt shares a perceptive look at the clinical need for rapid, front-line NGS sequencing, and how a unique, purpose built targeted NGS panel (Pillar Biosciences’ oncoReveal Nexus 21 gene Panel) was developed, validated and implemented clinically by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK-REACT) to complement their current comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) approach.
Webinar presenter Mark Ewalt, MD, Associate Medical Director for Laboratory Operations for Diagnostic Molecular Pathology in the Molecular Diagnostics Service, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, MSKCC.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Pillar Biosciences.
Thursday, May 28, 2026, 1:00–2:00 PM ET
This session is designed to improve understanding and application of recent updates to synoptic pathology reporting protocols such as the latest Reporting Template for Reporting Results of Biomarker Testing of Specimens from Patients with Carcinoma of the Breast. These changes reflect evolving clinical guidelines that directly influence diagnostic accuracy and treatment selection in breast cancer care.
Webinar presenters Thaer Khoury, MD, FCAP, Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Cente, and Colin Murphy, CEO of mTuitive.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
August 2025—Werfen launched in July 2024 its Gem Premier 7000 with iQM3 blood gas testing system. One year in, CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle spoke with Werfen’s Kristina Powell, Ken Huffenus, and Sofia Afonso for the latest on that and about what Werfen showcased at the ADLM meeting last month.
August 2025—Case summary. A 52-year-old chronic smoker with a known MLH1 mutation and Lynch syndrome presented with a pleural-based lung lesion. Fine-needle aspiration revealed a malignant neoplasm with papillary architecture, featuring enlarged overlapping nuclei, coarse chromatin, prominent nucleoli, and rare mitotic figures. Given the patient’s clinical background and cytologic findings, a broad differential diagnosis including primary and metastatic tumors from both thoracic and ab-dominal origins was considered.
August 2025—Strides in medical imaging techniques and procurement methods have led to the acquisition of small diagnostic samples obtained by minimally invasive techniques. Over the same period, the breadth of molecular information that can be derived from limited tumor material has increased exponentially. In the age of targeted cancer therapy, the clinical utility of this information is substantial and, when coupled with the decreasing costs of molecular analysis, the information transformed the treatment landscape of cancer. These advances have brought cytology back into the spotlight as a potential source of material for biomarker analysis.
August 2025—Human papillomavirus testing has become the standard of care in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) because of the unique clinical features, staging, and treatment options for HPV-associated HNSCC. HPV-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) exhibits a favorable prognosis and improved response to chemoradiation compared with conventional HNSCC and non-HPV-associated forms, and reporting the HPV status is frequently part of clinical trial enrollments. Many patients with OPSCC present with enlarged level II or III cervical lymph nodes and, as a result, cervical lymph node fine-needle aspiration is often the first, and sometimes only, tissue obtained for diagnostic testing. With a growing menu of options available to test for HPV status, including polymerase chain reaction, DNA in situ hybridization, mRNA ISH, liquid-based HPV assays, and p16 immunohistochemistry, it is not always clear when and which HPV test to use, especially when the diagnosis is made on a cytology specimen.
August 2025—I’ve written in this column many times that pathologists should be leaders of the laboratory. But all of the leadership skills we develop through that role also make us a good fit for many other leadership positions in our health care institutions and beyond. I have met CAP members who are chief medical officers, chief quality officers, presidents of their medical staff, and even CEOs of hospitals and health care networks. The current commander of one of the largest military medical centers in the U.S. is a pathologist.
August 2025—The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) oversees graduate medical education and closely monitors resident wellness. In 2017, the ACGME published findings from a national study outlining the causes of death among residents and fellows from 2000 through 2014. The most common overall cause of death was malignant neoplasm, and it was the leading cause of death among female residents and fellows. Suicide was the leading cause of death for male residents and the second leading cause for females. Twenty-three percent of deaths by suicide occurred in the first academic quarter of trainees’ first year in their medical programs.
August 2025—Certain subtypes of colorectal carcinoma pose diagnostic challenges in daily practice due to sometimes overlapping morphologic and immunohistochemical features and are associated with worse prognoses than poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified (PDA-NOS). Other variants of poorly differentiated colon cancers with solid growth patterns that have, anecdotally, been recognized as posing diagnostic challenges include large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC), medullary carcinoma (MC), undifferentiated carcinoma (UC), and lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELC). The authors conducted a study to determine survival outcomes between patients with poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma and those with a variant carcinoma morphology that may affect prognosis. They also analyzed interobserver agreement among gastrointestinal pathologists at their institution in subclassifying poorly differentiated colorectal carcinoma. All consecutive patients with diagnoses of PDA-NOS, MC, LCNEC, UC, and LELC between July 2018 and July 2023 were included.
August 2025—Childhood malignancies such as Wilms tumor—the most common type of kidney cancer in children—exhibit very few DNA changes when tested by traditional sequencing methods. Some of these types of tumors have fewer genetic anomalies than age-matched normal tissue. This raises the question, How can such genetically “quiet” malignancies emerge and progress without conventional driver mutations? To address this question, the authors employed high-resolution, ultra-deep sequencing to determine if hypomutation in juvenile kidney cancers characterized by a paucity of mutations, specifically Wilms tumor, is genuine or an artifact of conventional analytical constraints. By applying high-resolution duplex sequencing (Nanoseq) to Wilms tumors and matched normal kidneys from six pediatric patients, including four infants and two school-age children, the authors showed that standard bulk whole genome sequencing significantly underestimates the mutational burden in tumors from infants.
August 2025—Recognizing the value of researching options before purchasing a big-ticket item, the College of American Pathologists has developed the AI Playground to help pathologists assess artificial intelligence tools before going all-in on a technology that may not end up suiting their needs, among other potential issues. The playground will offer cutting-edge AI tools that pathologists can test-drive from the comfort of their own laboratories using simulated data sets on a platform designed specifically for that purpose. It will be available to CAP members at no charge and accessible via the CAP website after it is debuted in the CAP Innovation Hub and the College’s booth at CAP25, in Orlando, next month.
August 2025
Q. We manage multispecialty laboratories in multiple hospital locations. Most of the laboratories function on the traditional model of compartmentalized specialty-based testing units that offer routine and specialized services with their own dedicated space, equipment, and personnel. There is a future plan to establish an offsite centralized referral lab, but to improve operational efficiency and cost savings sooner, management is considering consolidating testing services at each location. What factors should be considered while planning the consolidation, keeping in mind the plan to establish a centralized reference lab? Should the testing services that will eventually be performed in the reference lab be excluded from the current consolidation plan? And how should we manage operations during the transition phase, i.e. once consolidation is completed but prior to the reference lab implementation? Read answer.
Q. We have been discussing supervisory review of test results that are manually entered into our laboratory information system (i.e. a test result not sent via interface from an analyzer or autoverified). Examples are a urine hCG performed on a kit cassette or a manual differential performed on a CBC, entered directly into the LIS by the performing technologist. Do manual test results require supervisory review, or is it only higher-complexity tests (like the differential) performed by a medical laboratory technologist that require such review? If review is required, who can review and what is the recommended time frame? Read answer.
