Wednesday, September 23, 2026. 12 PM-1 PM ET
Roundtable presenters Dr. David Sacks MB, ChB, FRCPath, Chairman, Steering Committee National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program (NGSP), and Priya Sivaraman, PhD, Senior Technical Product Manager, Tosoh Bioscience
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The roundtable is made possible by a special educational grant from Tosoh Bioscience Inc.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Thursday, September 24, 2026 11 AM-12 PM CT
This session explores the evolving role of RAS in precision oncology, from the biology of RAS mutations to the expanding landscape of targeted therapies. Through expert presentations, real-world case discussions, and interactive audience polling, participants will examine best practices for RAS biomarker testing across solid tumors, including lung, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers. The session will highlight practical considerations for tissue and liquid biopsy, strategies to address testing gaps, and the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration to ensure timely identification of patients who may benefit from RAS-targeted therapies.
Webinar presenters David Braxton, MD, Chief of Molecular Pathology Services, Hoag Family Cancer Institute & Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, and Carlos Becerra, MD, Research Director for Medical Oncology, Margaret Given Larkin Endowed Chair for Developmental Cancer Therapeutics, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from OncoLens and Diaceutics.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, September 30, 2026. 1 PM-1:30 PM ET
Roundtable presenters John Longshore, PhD, Head of Scientific Affairs, Global Oncology Diagnostics, AstraZeneca, and Flora Berisha, MS, Executive Director, Global Head of Diagnostic Partnering and Development, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, and Mark D. Ewalt, MD, Associate Medical Director for Laboratory Operations, Diagnostic Molecular Pathology, Molecular Diagnostics Service, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Isabel Preeshagul, DO, MBS, Thoracic Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The roundtable is made possible by a special educational grant from Pillar Biosciences.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Thursday, October 1, 2026 1 PM-2 PM ET
This presentation will explore the value of in-house CGP, offer insights into the benefits and drawbacks of incorporation, and provide information about important practical factors when considering in-house implementation of CGP.
Webinar presenter Allison M. Cushman-Vokoun, MD, PhD, FCAP, Medical Director, Molecular Diagnostics and Personalized Medicine Laboratory, Director, Division of Diagnostic Molecular Pathology and Human Genetics, Henry F. Krous Professor of Pathology, University of Nebraska Medical 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 Illumina.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
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
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
June 2024—Fairness, like so many principles, is subjective. Yet that is not deterring a growing number of medical informaticists and others interested in health care technology from advocating to incorporate fairness into machine learning algorithms to combat bias.
June 2024—The Food and Drug Administration in May approved the two HPV self-collection approaches from Roche and BD.
May 2024—You may have read my column in the March issue about how the CAP is taking care of the next generation of pathologists by helping and engaging our new-in-practice colleagues. If you’re a more seasoned pathologist, you may be wondering: What about me?
May 2024—Massive hemorrhage is a major cause of death in children, and the mortality rate from life-threatening hemorrhage is estimated to be 20 to 51 percent. To counter this high mortality rate, clinicians have sought to standardize massive transfusion protocols and hemostatic resuscitation, ensuring that protocols support balanced blood-based resuscitation or the use of low titer group O whole blood, or both. These protocols may include using the lysine analogue antifibrinolytics tranexamic acid (TXA) and epsilon aminocaproic acid (EACA) in children with life-threatening hemorrhage (LTH). However, use of these antifibrinolytics is much more common in adult trauma patients. Study data suggest that TXA may increase survival outcomes in adults with traumatic injury, postpartum hemorrhage, nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage, and all-cause bleeding.
May 2024—The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology described four subclasses of atypia within the atypia of undetermined significance category: nuclear (AUS-Nuc), architectural (AUS-A), oncocytic (AUS-Onc), and atypia not otherwise specified (AUS-NOS). Accumulating evidence supports the use of a binary AUS subclassification scheme based primarily on the presence of nuclear atypia only. The authors conducted a study to compare the risk stratification of binary versus four-tier AUS subclassification systems among AUS nodules with molecular or histologic follow-up, or both. The study included thyroid aspirates classified as AUS and tested using Afirma (Veracyte Inc.) between June 2013 and July 2021. Histological classification was considered the final outcome for resected nodules.
May 2024—Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment by recruiting the patient’s immune system to detect and destroy cancer cells. Immunotherapy often involves immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) agents, which target negative regulators of T-cell activation, such as cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4), programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), or programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1). Although ICB is used to treat a variety of cancer types, patients’ response to therapy is often unpredictable, and biomarkers such as tumor mutation burden, mismatch repair deficiency, and IHC for PD-L1 have limitations for assessing ICB response. Consequently, there is great interest in discovering additional biomarkers that will improve the ability to predict clinical response to ICB. Recent studies have explored the hypothesis that there may be a correlation between a person’s gut microbiome and therapeutic response.
May 2024
Q. I know that CLIA is changing and more tests/analytes will become CMS regulated, along with other changes. Can you provide some background and an overview of the changes and when they will become effective? Read answer.
May 2024—The FDA has granted marketing authorization, through the de novo pathway, for Prenosis’ Sepsis ImmunoScore artificial intelligence-enabled software as a medical device, or SaMD, for the rapid diagnosis and prediction of sepsis.
May 2024—Risant Health has completed its acquisition of Geisinger as its first health system dedicated to increasing access to value-based care and coverage. Risant says the organizations together will create a new value-based care platform that includes best practices, tools, technology, and services to support community-based health systems.
April 2024—When Tip O’Neill, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said many years ago that all politics is local, he was talking about how elections, legislation, and all of politics affect people where they live. I believe the concept applies just as much to pathology advocacy. When it comes to the issues we care about for our profession and for our patients, our efforts in advocacy, lobbying, educating, and persuading all need to happen at the local level just as much as at the national level.
