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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Columns

Anatomic Pathology Selected Abstracts, 5/14

May 2014—Impact of operator techniques and specimen-preparation checklist on bone marrow assessment: Successful bone marrow assessment is essential to the diagnosis and staging of hematologic malignancies. The authors conducted a study to determine whether specific operator techniques or use of a specimen-preparation checklist, or both, could impact the quality of bone marrow assessment by reducing the frequency of obtaining nonspicular aspirates, small cores, and nondiagnostic samples.

Letters, 4/14

April 2014—HER2 testing guideline update: Karen Titus’ article “New guideline takes on tough HER2 cases” (October 2013) nicely captures the deliberations behind the new HER2 testing guideline, issued by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the CAP last October. But as her article makes clear, the new guideline leaves open a question—and I would like to suggest an answer. That answer is based on new studies of molecular diagnostics, to which my institution and several others are contributors, and my own experience as a practicing medical oncologist.

Put It on the Board

April 2014—Clinical trial data and a Food and Drug Administration panel’s full-throated endorsement stand to reshape cervical cancer screening practice recommendations in the U.S. The FDA’s Microbiology Devices Advisory Committee in March voted 13-0 in favor of a new indication for Roche’s Cobas human papillomavirus test that would allow the assay to be used as a primary screen for cervical cancer in women 25 and older.

From the President’s Desk: Member survey meets our need to know, 4/14

April 2014—Soon CAP members will receive the online Practice Characteristics Survey, designed to provide evidence of the value we contribute to health care and the many ways we serve our patients. This is the ninth time since 1994 that we have conducted this survey, which informs our policy, advocacy, and planning for member services. If every CAP member makes a commitment to complete and return the survey, the results will greatly refine and enlighten our work to serve, promote, and represent your best interests. But every is the key word. Each member has a role in building a robust response rate that will give our findings the depth and level of credibility that inform and educate.

Q & A Column, 4/14

April 2014—I have a question about the meaning of the word “guideline” versus “procedure.” Checklist requirement ANP. 11670 Specimen—Gross Examination says the following: “Documented instructions or guidelines are readily available in the laboratory for the proper dissection, description, and histologic sampling of various specimen types (e.g. mastectomy, colectomy, hysterectomy, renal biopsy, etc.).” This leads me to question whether the word guideline means the same as procedure. Procedures need to be signed bi­ennially. Does the same apply to guidelines? The formatting is different for procedures. Could guidelines also mean references?

Newsbytes, 4/14

April 2014—CommonWell executing pilot phase of interoperability project: Competition is considered a positive force in business, but when patients are the consumers, cooperation sometimes trumps competition. For the founding members of the CommonWell Health Alliance, all major players in the competitive arena of health information technology, enabling clients to share patient data across disparate care settings and competing electronic health record systems is viewed as a common-sense move that boosts cost-effectiveness and benefits patients.

Clinical pathology selected abstracts

April 2014—Intervention to improve timing of vancomycin levels: Samples drawn for therapeutic drug monitoring are sometimes drawn too early, which can cause inaccurate results that lead to a potential dosing error. One approach to reducing such errors is to create an information technology tool to assist clinicians in determining the best timing for a sample draw. The authors conducted a study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, in which the investigators used both an educational and electronic intervention to reduce the number of vancomycin collection timing errors. The information technology-based intervention provided educational instructions to nurses.

Anatomic Pathology Selected Abstracts, 4/14

April 2014—Clear cell papillary renal cell carcinoma: diagnosis and immunohistochemical profile: Clear cell papillary renal cell carcinoma is a recently recognized renal neoplasm composed of cells with clear cytoplasm lining cystic, tubular, and papillary structures. These tumors have immunohistochemical and genetic profiles distinct from clear cell renal cell carcinoma and papillary renal cell carcinoma. The authors studied morphologic and immunohistochemical features (cytokeratin 7 [CK7], carbonic anhydrase IX [CAIX], CD10, alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase [AMACR], smooth muscle actin, desmin, and estrogen and progesterone receptors) in 55 tumors from 34 patients, eight of whom had end-stage renal disease.

Clinical pathology selected abstracts

March 2014—Transfusion-associated hyperkalemic cardiac arrest in pediatric patients: Hyperkalemic cardiac arrest is a potential complication in pediatric patients undergoing rapid massive transfusion. Identifying patients at particular risk for this reaction is critical for determining the best strategies to prevent transfusion-associated hyperkalemic cardiac arrest (TAHCA). Concerns arise over the use of older blood in at-risk pediatric patients. The authors examined the case reports and studies related to transfusion-associated cardiac arrest in a pediatric population.

Newsbytes, 3/14

March 2014—Digital imaging going strong but weaknesses persist: In his CAP ’13 presentation on digital imaging last fall, John H. Sinard, MD, PhD, asked attendees if they use digital still photography in anatomic pathology. “Most of the people in the room raised their hands,” says Dr. Sinard, who is professor of pathology, director of pathology informatics, and associate director of anatomic pathology at the Yale School of Medicine. In contrast, “very few hands went up” in response to a similar query regarding whole slide imaging.

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