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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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ARTICLES

Keys to curbing tube interference with test results

November 2013—There’s nothing flashy about specimen tubes, which may look like the most mass-produced, commonplace items in the laboratory, but appearances can be deceptive. All tubes are not created equal. “We know that preanalytical errors account for the majority of errors in the laboratory, and many of those errors derive from the tube type in which you collect your sample,” says Leslie J. Donato, PhD, co-director of the hospital clinical laboratory and point of care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

No worries with new cancer biomarker templates

October 2013—For anyone worried about the new CAP reporting templates for cancer biomarkers, Patrick L. Fitzgibbons, MD, has an important message: Don’t panic. “These are nothing new,” says Dr. Fitzgibbons, a pathologist at St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton, Calif., and chair of the CAP Cancer Biomarker Reporting Committee. “We’re not adding anything. The templates will look very familiar to users of the CAP cancer protocols. They shouldn’t be considered a significant burden.”

Adventures in culturing—five micro lab tales

October 2013—Culturing organisms is not always easy. Some microbes are fastidious. Others are below the limits of detection. And still others are just difficult to culture, for no discernible reason.

Ways to move quickly on bloodstream infection

October 2013—Since 1942, when penicillin was first used to treat infections caused by gram-positive bacteria, many improved and potent beta-lactam antimicrobials have been developed. Yet today, if a patient in an intensive care unit develops a bloodstream infection with Staphylococcus aureus, that person has a one in three chance of dying. High mortality rates apply to many other pathogens that cause bloodstream infections in ICU patients—from one in five for coagulase-negative staphylococci and Escherichia coli to almost 40 percent for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida spp. Enterobacter spp and Enterococcus spp have intermediate mortality rates: one in four and one in three, respectively. Even among patients on a non-ICU ward, bloodstream infections are associated with mortality rates between 20 percent and 30 percent.

On cuts and consequences, pathologists make their case

October 2013—James Richard, DO, directs CAP-Lab, an independent laboratory in Lansing, Mich., where he manages the business and does everything from signing off on pathology reports to paying the mortgage on the building. But among the many issues he tackles running his practice and in the midst of a shift in health care in the U.S., a single rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is what’s keeping him awake at night.

‘Extra’ genetic info—too much, too quickly?

October 2013—In the 1997 film “Gattaca,” the movie-going public was introduced to a world in which biology was quite literally destiny. A world in which the probabilities encoded in one’s genome dictated virtually every aspect of one’s existence and where those found genetically wanting were relegated to society’s margins. Fortunately, genomics has so far yielded nothing so nefarious nor is it ever likely to, thanks in part to the vigorous debate that accompanies advances in genetic and genomic technologies. An example of this is the debate underway, and making medical news, among physicians, ethicists, and laboratory directors over the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics’ recommendations on the reporting of incidental findings.

New guideline takes on tough HER2 cases

October 2013—In HER2 testing for breast cancer, the term “equivocal” verges on being a four-letter word. If the patient has a clearly positive test result, therapies targeting HER2 become a treatment option, and a highly successful one at that. If the result is clearly negative, HER2-targeting drugs are off the table; the patient isn’t expected to benefit from the drugs, which are expensive and can be cardio-
toxic.

Molecular testing platforms a land of plenty

October 2013—If you’ve ever seen what happens when someone accidentally puts regular liquid soap in a dishwasher, you’ll have a good mental image of just how vigorously the automated molecular testing market is bubbling over with new assays. HCV genotyping, rifampin resistance, group A Streptococcus—vendors are pouring these and many other tests into a market that, by all accounts, is more than eager for them.

An uneasy dance with POC glucose in the ICU

October 2013—Too much of a good thing can be wonderful,” Mae West famously said. And some feel our culture of excess reflects that value. Perhaps as a reaction there has been a surge of interest recently in the embrace of “enough” as a worthwhile goal. But when it comes to precise measurement of glucose values in the intensive care unit, the often-warring needs for speed and accuracy make the issue a critical matter of patient care. For point-of-care glucose testing in the ICU, how much precision is “enough”?

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