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
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
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
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
January 2022—Laboratories don’t have to monitor direct oral anticoagulants, but they might want to measure DOAC drug levels in some situations in some patients, said Karen A. Moser, MD, in a CAP21 session.
October 2021—Clonal hematopoiesis is a significant biological phenomenon and denotes presence of mutations in bone marrow stem cells in the absence of a hematologic malignancy.
October 2021—Rules, slide reviews, test ordering, and provider education were part of the conversation when CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle convened a hematology-focused virtual roundtable in late August. Workforce problems too: “We have a bigger exodus now and our pipeline is smaller,” said Eric D. Hsi, MD, of Wake Forest University.
September 2021—Rare wine? Delectable. Rara avis? Magnificent. Rare blue-top collection tube? Uh oh. For Richard Marlar, PhD, coming across a non-FDA-approved tube was an unhappy discovery. Dr. Marlar, medical director, coagulation laboratory, University of New Mexico Hospital, says his lab was among the first to encounter one of these rogue tubes, available for purchase on the internet and likely taking wing due to pandemic supply shortages. When the tube arrived for testing, it quickly kindled concerns, says Dr. Marlar. “It’s a tube we had never seen before. It looks like it has a CE mark on it, and the Europeans don’t know anything about it. It has a label on it that suggests it’s FDA approved—but the FDA is not aware of it,” he says, adding that his lab has spoken with the agency. It feels like a “CSI”-tinged moment in a venue that labs would prefer to keep drama-free. It also points to the ongoing need to keep a keen eye on what passes through coagulation laboratories. It’s not so much that the devil is in the details; rather, that’s where accurate results lie.
August 2021—Platelet function testing using platelet-rich plasma is the gold standard, but whole blood platelet aggregation has its advantages, with less risk for preanalytic error among them.
July 2021—The pandemic’s reach has often been portrayed in shades of red, signaling surging COVID-19 cases across states and countries. Vaccination maps, on the other hand, tend to render progress in more soothing tones, typically in the green family. But in coagulation laboratories, one small portent is colored blue—specifically, blue-top sodium citrate tubes. In recent months, laboratories began voicing concerns about tightening supplies. They’ve spoken with their vendors; some have reached out to new ones. And though no one wants to think about limiting testing if supplies truly become scarce, it wouldn’t be the first time labs have had to steer through these waters. The tubes are a functional symbol of the continued complexities of COVID-19-related coagulopathy, as physicians try to understand and respond to the pathophysiology of infection that leads to a thrombotic event. As the pandemic has churned on, much has started coming into sharper focus. Prepublication persists, but physicians have begun to sort through the past 18 months and, as many have put it, to “do the science.”
