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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

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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.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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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.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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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.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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The man to match the times

August 2025—The Dark Intelligence Group, led by its founder and CEO Robert Michel, announced in March it had sold its information services assets to LabX Media Group of Midland, Ontario, Canada, led by CEO Bob Kafato. Among these assets are The Dark Report, DarkDaily ebriefings, and events such as the annual Executive War College. Thus it is that Michel begins his exit from the laboratory field and his path to retirement. CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle and editor Sherrie Rice spoke with Michel in May about the sale and his decades at the helm of an intelligence service that many in clinical and anatomic pathology labs and in industry turned to for the news and the experiences of early adopters. Here’s what he told us.

Labs talk budgets, AI, and care gaps and delays

August 2025—With cuts to government programs underway or on the way, how are laboratory budgets affected? CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle asked members of the Compass Group what the impact has been as of July 1, when the group met online. Also up: how one lab is gearing up to close two patient care gaps and using a Costco approach to do so.

A blood management road map in WHO’s latest guidance

August 2025—The World Health Organization released new guidance this spring to provide aid in implementing patient blood management programs and toolkits to support blood health and patient safety at various resource levels. “It’s the job of the clinician to make the right decisions about blood use at the right time. Patient blood management programs help them do that,” says Sherri Ozawa, MSN, RN, a coauthor of the WHO guidance. “What documents like this and others do is help make the bridge between what laboratory professionals already know and changing clinical practice.” Ozawa is director of patient blood management operations for hc1 of Indianapolis, Ind., a company that optimizes laboratory data to improve clinical practice, enabling better patient care, streamlining operations, and reducing costs.

The quest to detect hemolysis in POC blood gas testing

August 2025—Werfen launched in July 2024 its Gem Premier 7000 with iQM3 blood gas testing system. One year in, CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle spoke with Werfen’s Kristina Powell, Ken Huffenus, and Sofia Afonso for the latest on that and about what Werfen showcased at the ADLM meeting last month.

Cytopathology in focus: Navigating papillary lesions in Lynch syndrome

August 2025—Case summary. A 52-year-old chronic smoker with a known MLH1 mutation and Lynch syndrome presented with a pleural-based lung lesion. Fine-needle aspiration revealed a malignant neoplasm with papillary architecture, featuring enlarged overlapping nuclei, coarse chromatin, prominent nucleoli, and rare mitotic figures. Given the patient’s clinical background and cytologic findings, a broad differential diagnosis including primary and metastatic tumors from both thoracic and ab-dominal origins was considered.

Cytopathology in focus: Small samples, big impact: cytology specimens in the molecular era

August 2025—Strides in medical imaging techniques and procurement methods have led to the acquisition of small diagnostic samples obtained by minimally invasive techniques. Over the same period, the breadth of molecular information that can be derived from limited tumor material has increased exponentially. In the age of targeted cancer therapy, the clinical utility of this information is substantial and, when coupled with the decreasing costs of molecular analysis, the information transformed the treatment landscape of cancer. These advances have brought cytology back into the spotlight as a potential source of material for biomarker analysis.

Cytopathology in focus: What’s new in ’25 head and neck SCC guideline?

August 2025—Human papillomavirus testing has become the standard of care in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) because of the unique clinical features, staging, and treatment options for HPV-associated HNSCC. HPV-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) exhibits a favorable prognosis and improved response to chemoradiation compared with conventional HNSCC and non-HPV-associated forms, and reporting the HPV status is frequently part of clinical trial enrollments. Many patients with OPSCC present with enlarged level II or III cervical lymph nodes and, as a result, cervical lymph node fine-needle aspiration is often the first, and sometimes only, tissue obtained for diagnostic testing. With a growing menu of options available to test for HPV status, including polymerase chain reaction, DNA in situ hybridization, mRNA ISH, liquid-based HPV assays, and p16 immunohistochemistry, it is not always clear when and which HPV test to use, especially when the diagnosis is made on a cytology specimen.

External controls critical to crucial assays

August 2025—CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle spoke on May 14 with Jessica Van Allen, PhD, technical support lead for ZeptoMetrix, and Meghan Starolis, MS, PhD, HCLD(ABB), senior science director for infectious diseases at Quest Diagnostics, Chantilly, Va.

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Bob McGonnagle: Jessica Van Allen, I’d like to talk about some of the hot topics in molecular infectious disease testing, and you mentioned in our discussions offline that viral load testing for transplant viruses is becoming ever more important in the field. Can you make a few remarks about that?

Jessica Van Allen, PhD (Zepto­Metrix): There’s testing that is done using laboratory-developed tests and testing performed using FDA-cleared assays. Those are the two big buckets of testing in the labs of our customers. Meghan and I attended a conference recently at which a couple of the speakers talked about viral load testing for common transplant viruses—EBV, CMV, VZV, some adenoviruses. We’ve been playing in that field for a long time in terms of molecular controls for viruses, so they’re products we’ve had on the shelf. Continue reading …

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This roundtable discussion is sponsored by ZeptoMetrix.

Familiar but newer: ICI-associated colitis

July 2025—For all the words that have been devoted to the topic of how to meditate, the path to enlightenment can be disarmingly simple: start by noticing. Likewise, there is a fairly simple set of instructions for untangling one of the vexing problems associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Though the drugs can create impressive antitumor response, they can also lead to immune-related adverse events (known as irAEs), including colitis and gastritis, which manifest as histologic changes that can be seen in both the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. Left unaddressed, severe reactions can disrupt treatment. It’s complicated. And it’s not. The first step, says Raul S. Gonzalez, MD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and director of the gastrointestinal pathology service, Emory University School of Medicine, is cultivating a certain mindfulness. “We need to have knowledge that checkpoint inhibitors can cause immune-related adverse events such as gastritis and colitis, to be aware that these things happen,” says Dr. Gonzalez.

Too few phlebotomists—is Aletta the answer?

July 2025—It was one of those infamous winter days in Chicago. The phlebotomy staff were calling off work, and Gregory S. Retzinger, MD, PhD, had reached his breaking point. Phlebotomists tend to be in short supply, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where Dr. Retzinger is medical director of pathology clinical services, is no exception.

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