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Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
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Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
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February 2020
From the President’s Desk: Our first Leadership Summit
February 2020—Regular readers of CAP TODAY know I believe that it is extremely important for CAP members to become politically active. The upcoming Pathologists Leadership Summit, which will take place May 2–5 in Washington, DC, will give you the opportunity to do so. If you haven’t registered already, I encourage you to consider attending this special event. The Pathologists Leadership Summit is new for the CAP. It is replacing our annual policy meeting focused on government advocacy.
Newsbytes
Drone delivery of lab samples: from progress at WakeMed to interest elsewhere
February 2020—After nearly a year of a drone buzzing through the air to deliver specimens from the Raleigh Medical Park surgery center to the laboratory at the flagship Raleigh campus of WakeMed Health and Hospitals a quarter-mile away, WakeMed is looking to expand its drone program.
Clinical Pathology Selected Abstracts
Blood utilization and transfusion reactions in pediatric patients transfused with platelets
February 2020—Even with advances in donor screening and infectious disease testing, the risk of transfusion-transmitted infections continues to be a concern. The FDA has approved a pathogen-reduction system for single-donor platelets, called Intercept Blood System (Cerus Corp.), to treat thrombocytopenic adult and pediatric patients.
Anatomic Pathology Selected Abstracts
DNAJB1-PRKACA fusions in fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma
February 2020—Recently discovered DNAJB1-PRKACA oncogenic fusions have been considered diagnostic for fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma. The authors conducted a study in which they described six pancreatobiliary neoplasms with PRKACA fusions, five of which harbored the DNAJB1-PRKACA fusion.
Molecular Pathology Selected Abstracts
Overall survival rates for lung cancer patients receiving osimertinib
Guidelines recommend testing patients with advanced or metastatic nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) alterations because targeted treatment with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) is available for patients with EGFR exon 19 deletions or L858R point mutations. Osimertinib is a third-generation, irreversible, oral EGFR-TKI that selectively inhibits EGFR-TKI–sensitizing and EGFR p.Thr790Met-resistance mutations.