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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

Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 1 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 Jeffrey Gregg, MD, University of Nevada

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

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

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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Clinical Chemistry

Host response solutions to sepsis risk prediction

September 2024—When emergency physician Chadd Kraus, DO, DrPH, of Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa., sees a patient who could have sepsis, he wants to know if there’s an infection and, if so, how bad it is based on the patient’s host response, what interventions are needed, and whether the patient will need to be hospitalized.

Plastic, paper, packaging—reducing waste in the lab

September 2024—The barriers to using sustainable practices in a clinical laboratory are legion: too much work and too little time, space, infrastructure, awareness, and education. And the waste streams for biohazardous and chemical hazardous material are complex. It’s therefore challenging to advise how to get a sustainability program going, which is why Joe Wiencek, PhD, D(ABCC), says, “Starting somewhere, anywhere, is half the battle.” When the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine issued its guidelines in 2022 for green and sustainable medical labs, its focus was on chemicals, energy, waste, and water. Waste has been the focus of research in the clinical labs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where Dr. Wiencek is service line medical director of the core laboratory, medical director of clinical chemistry, and associate professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology.

 

Lab test use: what 1 billion claims tell us

August 2024—Scale back excessive laboratory testing and use the savings to test the undertested and to fund unreimbursed tests, such as molecular diagnostics, suggest the authors of a large-scale study that found significant overuse of four tests. 

Lab, vendor views on instruments, assays, and data

July 2024—Instruments, assays, patient flow, and IT were some of what laboratory directors and IVD company representatives spoke of when CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle convened the group online on May 3. Here’s what they said about what instruments and assays are deployed where and the considerations that come into play in large health systems.

In diabetes patients, biomarker use for early-stage HF

March 2024—For patients with type 2 diabetes, the cardiac biomarkers are a better predictor of early-stage heart failure than conventional risk prediction scores. “We need to use biomarkers,” says Petr Jarolim, MD, PhD.

What’s going on? Interpreting urine toxicology cases

March 2024—For urine toxicology screening, immunoassays are automated and rapid but have variable sensitivity and specificity and results are considered presumptive. Mass spectrometry, used for confirmation, has superior sensitivity and specificity but is labor-intensive and slow and requires significant expertise.

The race to keep pace with drug use changes

February 2024—Xylazine prevalence, lab-developed testing, and new technology are converging at Yale New Haven Health in a way that gives rise to questions, worry, and new hope for faster drug testing.

New guidance on lab analysis in diabetes

December 2023—The third and latest edition of recommendations for laboratory analysis in diagnosing and managing diabetes mellitus, released this summer, provide guidance on, among other things, ketone testing, glycolysis, and point-of-care testing. The last such recommendations were published in 2011.

In some settings, alternatives to HbA1c acceptable

November 2023—Glycated albumin and fructosamine are highly specific, with high levels suggesting hyperglycemia. This points to their utility in monitoring glycemic control in people with diabetes. “They’re quite useful in the setting of overt hyperglycemia,” said Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH, at this year’s meeting of the Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine.