Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM ET
Discover how next-day comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) is possible with the Oncomine Comprehensive Assay Plus on the Genexus System—delivering both speed and accuracy.
Webinar presenters Jane Bayani, MHSc, PhD, Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Diagnostic Development, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada, and Nicola Normanno, MD, Scientific Director, IRCCS Romagnolo Institute for the Study of Tumors, Italy, and Morten Grauslund, PhD, Molecular Biologist, Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet/Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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 Thermo Fisher Scientific. For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic applications.
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
April 2016—Treating Clostridium difficile can be dreadfully difficult, even when a clinician doesn’t have to navigate ordering restrictions based on testing frequency. So when Julie A. Ribes, MD, PhD, director of clinical microbiology at UK HealthCare in Lexington, Ky., received a phone call last year from a clinician who asked for repeat C. difficile testing, she was more than sympathetic.
April 2016—In late January, I represented the CAP at MEDLAB, the medical laboratory conference and exhibition held each year in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. MEDLAB was held in conjunction with Arab Health, a multidisciplinary conference attended by more than 130,000 people from 163 countries. I was asked to present six separate talks in Dubai; the one on precision medicine in pathology drew more than 1,200 attendees.
April 2016—For many point-of-care testing coordinators, the prospect of developing Individualized Quality Control Plans is far from enticing. But there has never been much chance that laboratories could opt out of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ new quality control framework for much of their nonwaived testing.
April 2016—With next-generation sequencing’s clear benefits—for diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and trials—come its new challenges, and clinical laboratories are doing what it takes and sharing how. Two plenary speakers at last year’s meeting of the Association for Molecular Pathology spoke of variant calling in the bioinformatic pipeline and validation, and of clinical reporting. Colin Pritchard, MD, PhD, of the University of Washington and one of the speakers, sees reporting a genomic sequencing assay as more like making a histologic diagnosis, which he calls craftwork, than reporting a sodium value. “That’s an idea that hasn’t really permeated yet,” he said.
April 2016—The 2015–2016 influenza season is shaping up to be lighter than physician offices and hospitals have seen in recent years, with fewer flu positives reported, a lower death count, and a smaller share of flu-like illnesses among outpatients.
April 2016—Presenting on prostate cancer diagnosis at CAP ’15 last fall, David G. Bostwick, MD, MBA, recalled how he and Kenneth A. Iczkowski, MD, came up with the term “atypical small acinar proliferation suspicious for but not diagnostic of malignancy,” or ASAP, when they were at Mayo Clinic in 1997. They had scoured the Mayo files trying to spot the right term because they didn’t know what to call it, said Dr. Bostwick, who is medical director of Granger Diagnostics in Richmond, Va. “Should we call it suspicious but not diagnostic? Should we call it worrisome? Problematic?” Dr. Bostwick joked that his favorite expression seen in the files as a prostate biopsy finding in the 1980s was “semi-malignant,” saying, “I still don’t know what that means.”
April 2016—Case. The patient presented in May 2013 at age 42 with a two-year history of fatigue and pruritus of his legs. He smoked one pack of cigarettes per day as he had for 25 years and had about five to six alcoholic drinks daily. Physical exam was unremarkable with no rash or palpable splenomegaly. Height was 74 inches and weight 189 pounds.
April 2016—In his CAP ’15 presentation last fall, David Bostwick, MD, MBA, referred to intraductal carcinoma of the prostate as “sort of the rage right now in the urologic pathology field.” “The problem is that it has multiple different definitions, and interobserver agreement with it is moderate at best,” said Dr. Bostwick, medical director of Granger Diagnostics in Richmond, Va. Even when pathologists can agree on an IDC diagnosis, he said, they aren’t on the same page about treatment.
April 2016—We review peripheral blood smears and sometimes provide recommendations. For microcytic anemia with high red blood cell count, iron study and hemoglobin electrophoresis are suggested to rule out hemoglobinopathy. But for cases of microcytosis with high RBC count but without anemia, should we give the same recommendation as for an anemic patient?
April 2016—Comparison of methods for analyzing gene amplification in gastric cancers; Uterine smooth muscle tumor analysis by comparative genomic hybridization; Role of TAZ in aggressive types of endometrial cancer; Reclassification of resected lung carcinomas diagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma; Sequencing of cancer genes in ampullary carcinoma shows trends in histologic subtypes; Prognostic significance of the 2014 ISUP grading system for prostate cancer
