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
March 2020—At trauma hospitals, simplicity is considered a virtue. That’s why when Jansen Seheult, MD, and his colleagues decided to use machine learning to predict massive transfusion needs, they chose a decision tree algorithm. “It was easy to implement as if/then rules, and it didn’t require computational resources to deploy,” says Dr. Seheult, clinical assistant professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
March 2020—The CAP has 30 official liaisons to various organizations who attend scientific meetings or designate others to do so. They report to the Standards Committee, which reports to the Council on Scientific Affairs. We periodically publish bits of what the CAP’s outbound liaisons hear and see in their liaison roles.
March 2020—U.S. guidelines for human papillomavirus vaccination are 11 to 12 years, with a catch-up vaccination up to age 26 for women and 21 for men. The FDA recently expanded the approved age for HPV vaccination in adult women and men from nine through 45 years. The changes are based on safety data and efficacy as well as potential incremental population-level health benefits. The authors conducted a study to evaluate the added population-level effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of extending the current U.S. HPV vaccination program to women ages 27 through 45 years and men ages 22 through 45 years. They used HPV-ADVISE (agent-based dynamic model for vaccination and screening evaluation), a model for HPV infection and associated diseases specific to U.S. data.
March 2020—Microsatellite instability status in solid tumors is a critical biomarker for predicting tumor response to an immune checkpoint inhibitor drug. The immune system is more likely to attack those tumors that have a high degree of microsatellite instability, a consequence of the genomic instability that also leads to generation of the neoantigens the immune system is designed to recognize.
March 2020—Conflicting data about the clinical significance of microscopic Crohn disease activity at resection margins have led to varying practice patterns for routine reporting by pathologists. The authors performed a multicenter retrospective cohort study of 101 consecutive Crohn disease bowel resections during a 10-year period to characterize the association between active disease at resection margins and postoperative Crohn disease recurrence and time to recurrence. Margin slides were reviewed, and Crohn disease activity at the margins was graded as none, mild, moderate, or severe. The authors used logistic regression and Cox regression analyses, respectively, to evaluate the association between microscopic Crohn disease activity at the margins and postoperative recurrence and time to recurrence.
February 2020—Human endeavors are bursting with unintended consequences. Kudzu comes to mind. Smokestacks. Some even point fingers at Smokey Bear. John Greden, MD, offers an example of his own, one with renewed relevance in pharmacogenomics. It’s a subject he’s studied closely, including as principal investigator of the GUIDED trial Researchers looked at whether offering clinicians access to a pharmacogenomics test report would improve treatment for more than 1,100 patients with a major depressive disorder who had already failed to respond to an average of 3.5 antidepressant trials.
February 2020—Cost-effectiveness analysis of health care diagnosis and treatment, unfortunately connoting quotas and spartan budgets, may not have the best reputation among the general public.
February 2020—In vivo hemolysis accounts for less than two percent of cases of hemolysis, but don’t assume all hemolysis is in vitro. That was the point of one of the patient cases presented at CAP19 in a session on curbside consults in clinical pathology.
February 2020—New microfluidic and nanotechnologies could take liquid biopsy to the next level as a tool to gauge cancer progression and treatment response.
February 2020—Herbert Derman, MD, CAP president from 1983 to 1985, died Dec. 18, 2019, seeking a remedy to his chronic heart failure. Dr. Derman was CAP vice president from 1981 to 1983 and a member of the Board of Governors from 1971 to 1980. He was the chair and a member of several CAP councils, committees, and commissions. Dr. Derman was named CAP Pathologist of the Year in 1986. He received the ASCP/CAP Pathology Continuing Medical Education award in 1974 and 1978 and the ASCP/CAP Joint Distinguished Service award in 1993.
