Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 11 AM-12 PM ET
Hear experts review the biological and clinical significance of the HER2 expression continuum in breast tissue, providing a clearer understanding of how these variations might impact diagnosis, and discuss the emerging importance of documenting HER2-low and HER2-ultralow categories using a validated IHC assay.
Webinar presenters Keith Wharton, MD, PhD, Global Medical Affairs Leader–Pathology, Roche Diagnostics Solutions, and Hannah Y. Wen, MD, PhD, Director, Breast Pathology Fellowship, Associate Team Leader, Breast Pathology Team, Attending Pathologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Roche.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Thursday, October 29, 2026, 1 PM-2 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss the evolving role of PD-L1 testing in HNSCC and ovarian cancer.
Webinar presenter Georgios Deftereos, MD, Professor of Pathology, Associate Director of the Clinical Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Director of Molecular Cytopathology, University of California, San Francisco
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Agilent.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 1 PM-2 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss the challenges of detecting NRG1 fusions and how RNA-based testing can support more comprehensive fusion identification in clinical practice.
Webinar presenter Benjamin Weinberg, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Attending Physician
specializing in gastrointestinal medical oncology
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Diaceutics.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Monday, November 16, 2026, 12:30 PM-2 PM ET
Hear experts discuss a multidisciplinary approach to oncopathology for HER2
assessments for solid tumors in the absence of a companion diagnostic.
Webinar presenters Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD, Chair, Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics Medical Director, Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and Emina E. Torlakovic, MD, PhD, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canadian Biomarker Quality Assurance, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Carol Cheung, MD, PhD, JD, FRCPC, Deputy Director, Canadian Biomarker Quality, Assurance—Programme canadien d’assurance de la qualité des biomarqueurs
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is being sponsored by Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. and AstraZeneca. The speaker is being compensated for the presentation. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME accreditation.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
April 2013—During his six years overseeing fungal proficiency testing and assembling a library of fungal images on behalf of the CAP’s Microbiology Resource Committee, Gordon L. Love, MD, D(ABMM), noticed some-thing: Molds are surprisingly lovely.
April 2013—Faced with assessing one of the hundreds of thousands of patients who present with thyroid nodules each year, clinicians know that the initial diagnostic steps are straightforward. With fairly good reliability, using ultrasound examination, fine-needle aspiration, and cytologic examination, they can determine in about 70 to 80 percent of cases whether the nodule is benign or malignant. And good treatment options exist for those in the latter category.
April 2013—The paperless office may be just around the corner, and virtual reality may lie ahead too. But for the time being, when it comes to demonstrating that personnel have the required educational qualification to perform nonwaived point-of-care testing, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the CAP have a message for laboratory directors: Primary documents are king. For accreditation under CLIA, it’s not enough to know personnel are qualified because of their certificate or license; you have to prove it with copies of their transcripts and diplomas.
April 2013—Treatment for hepatitis C virus infection turned a corner in 2011 when direct-acting antiviral inhibitors were approved and combined with dual therapy—pegylated interferon and ribavirin. Cure rates shot up from about 45 percent to 70 to 75 percent. With antivirals that are even more potent in late-stage clinical trials now, “Use of oral antiviral therapy without interferon appears to be a real possibility for the near future,” said Mitchell L. Shiffman, MD, director of the Liver Institute of Virginia at Bon Secours Health System in Richmond and Newport News, in an Association for Molecular Pathology session at the 2012 annual meeting, where he spoke about viral load monitoring for HCV.
April 2013—It was a monumental task: create a molecular testing guideline for lung cancer. Among other tasks, those involved (representing the CAP, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, and the Association for Molecular Pathology) reviewed 1,533 abstracts and read, in detail, 521 full-text articles. There was extensive evidence grading; naturally, new literature was published in the interim, which required even more reviews. The payoff was the first international, evidence-based, multidisciplinary guideline for this part of lung cancer care. It contains 37 items addressing 14 subjects, including 15 recommendations (evidence grade A/B).
April 2013—Our 11th CAP annual meeting will open Oct. 13 in Orlando with a scientific plenary tied to this year’s “dig deeper” track (13 courses) in endocrine pathology. Three renowned experts will present “Metabolic Syndrome: Can the Controversy Become Pathology’s Opportunity?” and launch four days of outstanding education and networking.
April 2013—When 19th-century Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis found that doctors could dramatically decrease puerperal infections by washing their hands with a chlorinated lime solution before delivering babies, his colleagues thought he was nuts. Why, everyone knew that infections were caused by noxious air!
April 2013—ACMG issues guidance on incidental findings: The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics released last month its recommendations for reporting incidental findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing. An ACMG working group, working with 15 experts who served as external reviewers, specifies a set of disorders, the relevant associated genes, and certain categories of variants that should be reported, based on a consensus-driven assessment of clinical validity and utility.
April 2013—Computing for Good project proving great for African labs; Cerner purchases Labotix Automation, PureWellness; Six health IT companies forge interoperability organization; Liaison Technologies acquires Ignis Systems; Psyche Systems offers new LIS and updates another; AP-Visions marketing LIS to small hospitals and POLs; HL7 releases intellectual property as free offering
April 2013—Remembering Lee VanBremen, PhD: I read with interest the reminiscences about former CAP executive vice president Lee VanBremen, PhD (February 2013, page 12). It was my good fortune to serve on the CAP Board of Governors while Dr. VanBremen was the EVP. It became immediately apparent that he was a gentleman, highly intelligent, quiet, and reserved.
