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Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 1:00–2:00 PM ET
In this webinar, we will examine how immune recognition after allogeneic HCT can influence leukemia relapse and disease progression. The session will highlight the clinical relevance of HLA loss of heterozygosity (LOH), approaches used for its detection, and how LOH findings may support transplant strategies, including considerations for donor selection in subsequent transplantation.

Webinar presenter Alberto Cardoso Martins Lima, PhD, Clinical consulting scientist in histocompatibility,
specializing in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) at IGEN/AFIP São Paulo and CHC/UFPR in Curitiba, Brazil

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:00–1:00 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss the expanded clinical utility of HER2 IHC scoring in metastatic breast cancer and its impact on your practice

Webinar presenter Michelle Shiller, DO, AP, CP, MGP, FACP, Baylor University Medical Center.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss how to integrate Kappa and Lambda in situ hybridization testing into your standard hematopathology workflow to accurately assess B-cell and plasma cell clonality. You will also gain the skills to recognize testing pitfalls in challenging reactive versus neoplastic proliferations and apply ancillary tools to resolve complex cases.

Webinar presenter Xiaojun Wu, MD, PhD, Assistant professor, Director of Hematopathology Section at NCR of Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Pathology, SOM at Johns Hopkins University

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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2017 Issues

Life-threatening bleeding—what’s the right call?

June 2017—In the CAP16 session, “Your Turn: Management of the Bleeding Patient,” Theresa Nester, MD, reminded attendees who provide transfusion medicine consultation to assess the available information before calling the clinical team: patient history, drugs, coagulation test results, and products administered so far. “Your main role is to help determine why the patient is bleeding and the most appropriate treatment,” said Dr. Nester, medical director of integrated transfusion services at Bloodworks Northwest in Seattle.

Emergency hemorrhage panel gives surgeons what they need

June 2017—As an alternative to point-of-care testing, Wayne Chandler, MD, and colleagues developed and implemented a rapid emergency hemorrhage panel, or EHP, for trauma patients (Chandler WL, et al. Transfusion. 2010;50[12]:2547–2552). The panel tests are prothrombin time, hematocrit, fibrinogen, and platelet count. “By limiting EHPs to patients that were actively bleeding, EHPs accounted for only 8 of 243 coagulation samples per day,” he and colleagues wrote in their 2010 article.

Anatomic Pathology Abstracts, 6/17

June 2017—Fallopian tube involvement in uterine serous carcinomas: The authors investigated the frequency and histopathologic and immunohistochemical characteristics of tubal involvement in uterine serous carcinoma to clarify the relationship between serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma (STIC) and uterine serous carcinoma. They prospectively collected and reviewed, for the presence of tubal involvement, cases of the latter with complete tubal examination.

Clinical Pathology Abstracts, 6/17

June 2017—Stem cell divisions, somatic mutations, cancer etiology, and cancer prevention: Cancers are caused by mutations that may be inherited or induced by environmental factors or that may result from DNA replication errors. The mutations due to random mistakes made during normal DNA replication may explain why cancers occur much more commonly in some tissues than others. Approximately three mutations occur every time a normal human stem cell divides.

Molecular Pathology Abstracts, 6/17

June 2017—Whole genome single-cell copy number profiling on FFPE tissue samples

Single-cell genomic methods take the concept of analyzing intratumor genetic heterogeneity to its logical conclusion. Traditionally, however, single-cell methods can only be used to analyze fresh or rapidly frozen tissue because formalin fixation and paraffin embedding degrades tumor DNA and cross-links proteins.

Q&A column, 6/17

June 2017—Our analyzer reported nucleated red blood cells of six, with no cellular interference flag. The technologist missed that the automated NRBC was six. When he performed the manual differential, he noted more than five NRBCs and performed a corrected count and certified it. Is it acceptable to report out the automated white blood cell value as well as the corrected WBC?

Newsbytes, 6/17

June 2017—Making the most of classroom technologies to train residents: Google the phrase “millennials killed” and you’ll discover a genre of Internet clickbait claiming the generation in question has rejected a lengthy assortment of previously popular items, from “the suit” to “napkins” to the “hangout sitcom.”

Put It on the Board, 6/17

June 2016—CMS grants Qualified Clinical Data Registry status to Pathologists Quality Registry: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved the CAP’s Pathologists Quality Registry as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry, or QCDR. This makes it a reporting option for pathologists in fulfilling reporting requirements under Medicare’s Quality Payment Program.

Acute leukemia workups, from top to bottom

May 2017—Plenty can happen in five years. Just ask Cubs fans who watched their team leap from a 101-loss season in 2012 to a 103-win season in 2016 and a World Series title as the cherry on top. Or ask Daniel Arber, MD, who co-chaired a hefty new guideline—a half decade in the making—on diagnostic workup of acute leukemia. At the start of the project, “I think everyone going into it realized it was going to be a time-consuming, long process. But I don’t think anyone realized how long,” says Dr. Arber, professor and chair of pathology, University of Chicago, and the CAP co-chair for the guideline group.

TLA in, volume up—micro labs take stock

May 2017—Rise of the Robots. Disruption. Humans Need Not Apply. “The Future of Work.” A flood of books and articles in the past several months make the argument that service industries in the U.S. hover on the brink of total automation and humans will have to figure out how to adapt. Forty-five years ago, when Michael R. Jacobs, MD, PhD, started in microbiology, people fantasized about microbiology reaching this stage.

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