Anatomic pathology selected abstracts
- Histological regression in melanoma: impact on SLN status and survival
- CERTAIN study results: use of adjunctive p16 IHC in cervical biopsies
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 1:00 PM-2 PM ET
Join us for a session to help improve diagnostic accuracy in your practice when scoring HER2 IHC 0 with faint, incomplete membrane staining in ≤10% of tumor cells vs IHC 0 with no membrane staining detected in patients with mBC.
Webinar presenter Samuel Caughron, MD, FCAP, Chief Strategy Officer, MAWD Pathology, Medical Director of Laboratory, AdventHealth Kansas City, Medical Director of Laboratory, Labcorp, President, Member & Director, Pathology Ventures, LLC
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is intended for US healthcare professionals. This program is being sponsored by 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
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
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 12:00 PM-1 PM ET
Join leading pathology experts, Savitri Krishnamurthy, MD, and Marilyn Bui, MD, PhD, for a webinar exploring potential challenges in HER2 IHC testing for breast cancer, emerging evidence supporting digital and computational pathology as assistive tools for pathologists in HER2 IHC assessment, and practical considerations for real-world implementation and adoption.
Webinar presenters Savitri Krishnamurthy, MD, Professor of Pathology, Department of Anatomical Pathology The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and Marilyn Bui, MD, PhD, Surgical Pathologist and Cytopathologist Member and Professor, Departments of Pathology, Machine Learning, and Translational Pathology, Scientific Director, Analytic Microscopy Core Chair, Women in Oncology Executive Board Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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 speakers are being compensated for their presentations. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME credit.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 12 PM-1 PM ET
Hear an expert pathologist discuss the role of HER2 IHC testing and scoring in solid tumors including endometrial, ovarian, cervical, bladder, non-small cell lung, colorectal, and biliary cancers
Webinar presenter Michelle Shiller, DO, MSPT, Baylor Sammons Cancer Center; Fulgent Genetics; Texas Cancer Interception Institute
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is intended for US healthcare professionals. This program is being sponsored by 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 2022
Q. Is it necessary to perform a manual cell count for body fluids, including CSF, using a hemocytometer? Can clinical decisions be made based on low cell counts in body fluid reported by automated cell counters since these instruments have decreased precision and accuracy with low counts? Read answer.
Q. Is there a time limit for a critical value—for example, when a specimen is drawn at 8 AM, the lab receives it at 5 PM (due to courier issues) and has a result at 10 PM, and the value falls in the critical range? Since it is now 14 hours after the draw, the lab value may no longer be actionable. No clinician would act on a critical value that is a week old, so at what point is the lab value no longer considered critical? Read answer.
Q. Given that blood specimen collection tubes are in short supply, many laboratories may need to switch to an alternative collection tube manufacturer. What validation studies are necessary before an alternative collection tube can be implemented? Read answer.
April 2022—Michelle Stoffel, MD, PhD, supports the use of Excel spreadsheets in some areas of laboratory medicine, but not necessarily as a laboratory workflow tool. It’s a realization she came to when, as a clinical informatics fellow at the University of Washington School of Medicine, she led the charge to revamp the workflow for the immunology laboratory’s Merkel cell antibody panel.
April 2022—Cofactor Genomics announced publication of a study showing that its multianalyte biomarkers based on T cell subtype profiling (TCSP) predicted patient response to anti-PD-1 therapy in three cancers (lung, melanoma, head and neck) and outperformed the indicated PD-L1 test and tumor mutational burden (Schillebeeckx I, et al. Sci Rep. 2022;12[1]:1342).