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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

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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

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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

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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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Clinical Pathology

Views on AI use for lab test orders and reports

August 2026—Would artificial intelligence as an aid in ordering laboratory tests and making reports understandable to patients be a worry or a welcome step? In a June 2 online roundtable led by CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle, a Compass Group member shared what he learned about an Epic pilot, and that launched the following conversation about the clinical laboratory and pathology reports that could be made easier for patients to understand. One participant’s view: “proceed with caution.”

Time to improve preeclampsia screening

July 2026—Among its many peculiarities, medicine dwells in interstitial spaces—between seeing a problem and addressing it; between the (in)actions of one specialty and another; between practice and practice guidelines; between overtreatment and targeted treatment; between widespread access and boutique care.

Lab leaders weigh alternative revenue models

June 2026—Alternative revenue models for laboratories, specifically laboratory testing for functional health and other health care practices that traditionally haven’t been part of conventional medicine, came up in a May 6 online Compass Group roundtable, led by CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle.

Risk management elevated to more formal framework

May 2026—In the laboratory general accreditation checklist in the 2025 edition, released last December, is new emphasis on a prospective risk assessment process in the laboratory’s quality management …

In MS diagnosis, the case for κ-FLC index

March 2026—An international panel of experts in multiple sclerosis and cerebrospinal fluid diagnostics reached a consensus in 2023, and they recommended including the determination of intrathecal kappa free light chain synthesis in the next revision of MS diagnostic criteria as an additional tool to measure intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis.

Easing, clarifying of personnel requirements: ’25 accreditation checklists

March 2026—More flexibility and less burden sum up the personnel requirement changes in the accreditation program checklists released in December last year. The revisions to the CAP checklists stem from changes that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on June 23, 2025 in response to feedback the CMS had received about what it required in the CLIA final rule implemented on Dec. 28, 2024. The announcements were in CMS memorandum QSO-25-21-CLIA (CLIA Enforcement Discretion and Clarification on Personnel Regulations) and QSO-25-10-CLIA Revised (Revisions to State Operations Manual, Appendix C–Advance Copy).

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