Quest, PeaceHealth agreement, 6/17
June 2017—Quest Diagnostics and PeaceHealth have formed a two-part arrangement to enhance the delivery of laboratory services to communities in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.
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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.
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
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Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
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.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
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.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
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NGS cancer panels, 6/17
June 2017—Oxford Gene Technology has expanded its SureSeq myPanel NGS Custom Cancer Panel content. The expanded content covers more than 70 genes optimized for hematology and solid tumors including breast, colorectal, lung, ovarian and prostate cancer, glioma, melanoma, sarcoma, leukemias, myeloproliferative neoplasms, and myelodysplastic syndrome.
Deep learning AI analytics platform, 6/17
June 2017—Fimmic launched its next-generation WebMicroscope Deep Learning Platform. Fimmic’s cloud platform brings deep learning artificial-intelligence-based image analysis to pathologists and researchers, no matter the size of a project.
FDA-cleared next-gen troponin T test, 6/17
June 2017—Roche received 510(k) clearance for its Elecsys Troponin T Gen 5 STAT blood test for patients with a suspected heart attack. With this clearance, according to a company statement, Roche is the first IVD company in the U.S. to provide next-generation troponin testing for patients as an aid in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction, enabling clinicians to more accurately identify patients experiencing a heart attack.
Pan-ethnic solution for carrier status research, 6/17
June 2017—Thermo Fisher Scientific released its CarrierScan Assay, a high-throughput, microarray-based assay that provides molecular genetics laboratories with a consolidated and automated single pan-ethnic solution for expanded carrier status research.
Multiplexed analysis to detect gene fusions, 5/17
May 2017—Agena Bioscience announced a comparative study published in Scientific Reports highlighting the use of its mass-spec-based platform for transcriptome analysis of ALK, ROS1, and RET gene fusions in lung cancer.
Monoclonal antibodies to Shigella, 5/17
May 2017—ViroStat released two sets of monoclonal antibodies to Shigella—one set specific to Shigella sonnei and another set specific to Shigella flexneri 2a. Potential applications for these include direct bacterial detection by ELISA and lateral flow rapid tests.
Molecular flu tests cleared, 5/17
May 2017—Cepheid received FDA clearance to market Xpert Xpress Flu and Xpert Xpress Flu/RSV. Both tests deliver reference-quality molecular results in as little as 20 minutes. The tests are Cepheid’s first Xpress branded products, which are expected to deliver results in 30 minutes or less.
BD Veritor meets new FDA flu requirements, 5/17
May 2017—Becton Dickinson announced that its BD Veritor System Flu A+B, a digital immunoassay for the rapid detection of influenza, meets the new FDA performance requirements in which antigen-based rapid influenza virus antigen detection systems (RIDTs) intended to detect influenza virus directly from clinical specimens have been reclassified from class I devices to class II devices subject to special controls.
ROS1, RET mutations added to liquid biopsy test, 5/17
May 2017—Biodesix announced that its GeneStrat test, a liquid biopsy for patients with cancer, now includes ROS1 and RET. GeneStrat is a noninvasive blood test analyzing circulating tumor DNA and RNA. The test provides highly sensitive results in 72 hours for non-small cell lung cancer patients.