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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

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2015 Issues

In genetics, stay open to the unexpected

July 2015—When Uta Francke, MD, received the Association for Molecular Pathology Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics at the 2014 AMP meeting, she titled her lecture “Adventures in Disease Gene Identification and Characterization of Mutations.” Her title was appropriate for a research clinician who, during her 35-year career, while working on several major human genetic disease challenges, contributed in significant ways to our understanding of important genetic disease mechanisms and whose laboratory identified the gene for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.

Evidence drives guideline on reducing interpretive error

July 2015—Secondary review of surgical pathology cases is a common, if not universal, practice in U.S. anatomic pathology departments. The evidence has shown that case reviews detect errors. But until now, one important thing has been missing: consensus on the actual standard of practice for such reviews. Anatomic pathology departments have lacked evidence-based guidelines on how and when to conduct reviews.

New lab, new efficiencies: doors open at Geisinger

July 2015—The last time Geisinger Medical Laboratories had a new facility, American women were still five years from getting the vote. Typhoid Mary had only recently ceased merrily showering her employers’ food with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. And the celebrity name on everyone’s lips was Charlie Chaplin. A view of the new laboratory building. “I think we have actually achieved the ideal in terms of efficiency,” says Dr. Schuerch (left), with Dr. Wilkerson.

Q&A column, 7/15

July 2015—Q. We recently reorganized the workflow in our blood bank in hopes of improving process control and reducing distractions. In doing so, we increased the potential for workplace injuries. The ergonomic issues are a major concern for a lot of workers. Employees on all three shifts are developing back and knee issues. We are an 800-plus-bed hospital lab with more than 30 people working in our department. The following issues have arisen:

From the President’s Desk: Lab leadership in public health, 6/15

June 2015—More than 11,000 dead of Ebola virus disease in Africa; measles recurring in the United States after a 15-year hiatus; 40 million poultry dead from bird flu or culled in the hope of containing it. The world gets smaller, the agents stay strong, the zoonotic threats multiply. Anticipating and managing such challenges is an important part of laboratory leadership.

AKI risk biomarkers may be ‘as early as it gets’

June 2015—Last fall, the FDA cleared Astute Medical’s NephroCheck to pinpoint critically ill adults likely to manifest moderate to severe acute kidney injury within 12 hours. The urine biomarker test’s investigators believe NephroCheck will give clinicians the early warning signs they need to head off impending cases of AKI, though it remains to be seen whether that hoped-for prevention will bear out in clinical outcomes studies. One important laboratory hurdle to widespread use of the test is that it is performed on a countertop instrument separate from the automated line used for all other urinalyses.

Molecular Pathology Selected Abstracts, 6/15

June 2015—Expanding the application of RNA technology: potential for enhanced diagnostics: Technical applications using RNA technology have been limited in scope due to the inability to selectively label specific nucleotides within an RNA molecule.

Clinical Pathology Selected Abstracts, 6/15

June 2015—Effects of red cell storage duration on patients undergoing cardiac surgery: Patients who undergo cardiac surgery often receive multiple units of red blood cells and may be at risk for end-organ injury because of compromised cardiac output or a proinflammatory state that follows cardiopulmonary bypass. At least one large study has shown an increase in adverse outcomes in patients receiving RBCs stored longer than 14 days compared with those receiving RBCs stored less than 14 days.

Anatomic Pathology Selected Abstracts, 6/15

June 2015—Safety and diagnostic accuracy of tumor biopsies in children with cancer; Napsin A as a specific marker for ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma; Long-term follow-up of an active surveillance cohort of patients with prostate cancer; Primary sources of pelvic serous cancer in patients with endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma; Re-evaluating the role of sentinel lymph node biopsy in microinvasive breast carcinoma; Molecular analyses of six types of uterine smooth muscle tumors