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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

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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

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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

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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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Therascreen EGFR RGQ PCR kit approved as companion diagnostic for Vizimpro
October 2018—The FDA has approved a PMA supplement expanding the labeling claim of the Qiagen Therascreen EGFR RGQ PCR kit to allow its use as a companion diagnostic with Pfizer’s Vizimpro (dacomitinib). Vizimpro is for first-line treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR exon 19 deletions or an exon 21 L858R mutation. The Therascreen EGFR RGQ PCR kit is now approved as a companion diagnostic to guide the use of three FDA-approved therapies, including also Gilotrif (afatinib) from Boehringer Ingelheim and Iressa (gefitinib) from AstraZeneca. It is registered in more than 40 countries. This was a project governed under an agreement between Qiagen and Pfizer.

Philips introduces computational pathology software for tumor detection
Royal Philips announced in September the latest release of TissueMark, which the company says now supports region of interest detection for the majority of molecular testing.

Q&A column

Q. How can one wisely apply GATA3 immunohistochemistry as a useful tumor marker in diagnostic surgical pathology? Read answer.

Newsbytes

Innovation labs: different means to
the same end
October 2018—What’s the best way for a hospital to kill a health care improvement-related idea? Some say (tongue in cheek) send it to committees, meetings, suggestion boxes, or the like. Read more.

From the President’s Desk—CAP accreditation: perspective-taking 101

October 2018—I grew up in the CAP as a volunteer in the Laboratory Accreditation Program. It’s a good place to dive in. Many of us do what I did—work our way through many volunteer opportunities over 30 years or more because each was so interesting. There are an amazing number of ways a person can approach challenges in a laboratory; more amazing is how many of the approaches will work. Partly that’s because the learning cuts both ways—I’ve learned as much when we were inspecting another laboratory as when my laboratory was being inspected.

Clinical pathology selected abstracts

RT-PCR detection of B. microti parasites using BMN antigens as amplification targets
October 2018—Babesia microti infection, which is transmitted through the bite of an infected tick, is a growing health concern and continues to be a threat to the blood supply, with 22 states having reported cases of babesiosis in 2014. While most healthy adults with Babesia infection are asymptomatic or present with mild symptoms, including fever, fatigue, and anemia, babesiosis can be severe or fatal in neonates, the elderly, and immunosuppressed individuals.

Anatomic pathology selected abstracts

Analysis of ZC3H7B-BCOR high-grade endometrial stromal sarcomas
October 2018—High-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma likely encompasses underrecognized tumors harboring genetic abnormalities besides YWHAE–NUTM2 fusion. Triggered by three initial endometrial stromal sarcomas with ZC3H7B–BCOR fusion characterized by high-grade morphology and aggressive clinical behavior, the authors investigated the clinicopathologic features of this genetic subset by expanding the analysis to 17 such tumors. All of the tumors occurred in women who were a median age of 54 (range, 28–71) years.

Molecular pathology selected abstracts

Cell-free DNA tumor mutational burden predicts efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors
October 2018—Immune checkpoint inhibitors have emerged as a potent class of therapy for a variety of malignancies. The biologic rationale for these drugs is that somatic mutations, not necessarily in cancer driver genes, may accumulate in tumor cells, resulting in amino acid changes that create neoantigens (epitopes not present in normal cells during maturation of the immune system).

Letters

AMH immunoassays
October 2018—In the article “Satisfaction high with new automated AMH assays” (June 2018), the focus seems to be on the presumed advantages of the Roche Elecsys and Beckman Coulter Access automated anti-müllerian hormone assays over manual AMH assays. The article reports that the main advantages of the automated platforms are less variability in AMH measurements, greater assay turnaround time, and greater assay cost-effectiveness.

Molecular ‘bucket list’ for renal cancer

September 2018—Leo Tolstoy is not listed as a coauthor on the most recent iteration of The Cancer Genome Atlas on renal cell carcinoma, which focuses on molecular characterization of RCC.

Hemophilia drug interferes with APTT-based assays

September 2018—When a miracle drug comes along that is predicted to cause havoc in the laboratory, the drug could well seem like a double-edged sword. In the case of emicizumab (Genentech’s Hemlibra), for patients with hemophilia A, the mix of both benefits and drawbacks is likely to settle in for the long term.

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