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Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 11 AM-12 PM ET
Hear experts review the biological and clinical significance of the HER2 expression continuum in breast tissue, providing a clearer understanding of how these variations might impact diagnosis, and discuss the emerging importance of documenting HER2-low and HER2-ultralow categories using a validated IHC assay.

Webinar presenters Keith Wharton, MD, PhD, Global Medical Affairs Leader–Pathology, Roche Diagnostics Solutions, and Hannah Y. Wen, MD, PhD, Director, Breast Pathology Fellowship, Associate Team Leader, Breast Pathology Team, Attending Pathologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. The webinar is made possible by a special educational grant from Roche.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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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.

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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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Climate of concern over fungal infections

May 2024—If anything keeps Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, lying awake at night, it’s the frogs. And the bats. Also, the patients (relatively few, at least for now) who are affected by invasive fungal diseases. Dr. Casadevall is a microbiologist and infectious diseases expert in the Johns Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he’s a professor of medicine and chairs the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. In his waking hours, he looks deeply and broadly at the natural world and how the disturbing growth of fungal infections might impact the medical world. Though the arrows haven’t hit the bull’s-eye, they seem to be flying in that direction, says Dr. Casadevall, who has written widely on this topic, including “Immunity to Invasive Fungal Diseases.” In a recent interview with CAP TODAY, Dr. Casadevall spoke about how he and others in the field are thinking about how medicine might respond to this potential threat.

Confronting diagnostic gaps in fungal infection

April 2024—It’s readily apparent in the patient populations at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he is director of the mycology laboratory. Especially concerning is the increase in Candida auris following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, both in terms of colonization and infection cases, says Dr. Zhang, who is also associate professor of pathology, Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Since 2022, we suddenly saw an uptick in Candida auris cases across the Johns Hopkins Health System.”

Looking ahead to respiratory virus season

October 2023—With respiratory virus season near, those with a close eye on it in August gave the lay of the land for test algorithms, technologies, and forecasts, even as SARS-CoV-2 and RSV cases were rising in parts of the country.

Lab’s steps to fewer contaminated urine cultures

September 2023—A casual comment made in a routine exchange in an Avera McKennan Hospital laboratory sparked a five-year campaign to bring down the urine culture contamination rate. “I feel like all I do is report contaminated cultures,” a microbiology technologist said in 2016.

For SARS-CoV-2, clearing the air on EUA tests

July 2023—As the COVID-19 federal public health emergency drew to a close in mid-May, industry experts explained what will and won’t change for the laboratory and weighed the fallout from the drop-off in SARS-CoV-2 testing.

For sepsis Dx, MDW biomarker brought into the mix

July 2023—When Butler Health System in early 2020 installed the Beckman Coulter DxA 5000 automation line, its hospitals were among the first in the country to do so. At the same time, Butler went live with the DxH 900 hematology analyzer.

In search for Candida auris, labs all in

June 2023—A bad-news, good-news, bad-news, good-news bass line thrums through the ongoing story of Candida auris as it continues to spread in the United States. Initially identified in Japan, in 2009, in an ear specimen—hence the auris—the yeast was first reported in the United States in 2016. Like certain other pathogens, C. auris’ domestic presence appeared to be linked to travel-related cases, then quickly spread, first to the metropolitan regions of Chicago and New York City and now to more than half the states. That’s worrisome. Yet the spread hasn’t been unbridled. Early fears that it would sweep indiscriminately through all patient populations have not been realized. “It’s not as virulent as albicans,” says Sixto M. Leal Jr., MD, PhD, director of the clinical microbiology laboratory and of the fungal reference laboratory, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a member of the CAP Microbiology Committee. “It’s about as virulent as Candida glabrata. It’s not too much of a significant threat if you’re healthy.”

Lyme algorithms: stick to standard, move to modified?

June 2023—For Lyme disease testing, immuno­blots became optional in 2019 when the FDA cleared enzyme immunoassays for use as part of a modified two-tiered testing algorithm. “It was a historic event in the world of Lyme diagnostics,” says Elitza Theel, PhD, D(ABMM).

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