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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

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, 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

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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Molecular Pathology

DPYD genotyping assays—what’s recommended and why

January 2025—A study published last year found variability in the variants tested for in the commercial lab DPYD genotyping assays available at the time of the study, underscoring “the importance of comprehensive DPYD genotyping to accurately identify patients with DPD deficiency,” the authors said. Compromised dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency raises a cancer patient’s risk of fluorouracil toxicity.

Time for wider pretreatment DPYD genotyping?

December 2024—On the heels of the publication of a joint consensus recommendation on DPYD genotyping, setting out what variants to test for, two experts who have studied the use of DPYD genotyping shed light in CAP TODAY interviews on its importance and its real-world impact.

Evaluation of the genetic findings in B-cell lymphoma in the context of clinicopathological data

December 2024—Case. A 73-year-old male with a clinical history of benign prostatic hypertrophy and pituitary macro­adenoma status post-resection presented with lymphocytosis. This incidental lymphocytosis was noted within a preoperative CBC for a prostate procedure. At the time he was asymptomatic; medications included hydrocortisone, testosterone, and levothyroxine. Lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly were absent on physical examination. Complete blood counts showed WBC 25.8 × 109/L, hemoglobin 13.9 g/dL, hematocrit 42 percent, and platelets 134 × 109/L.

AMP case report: Molecular insights into the bi-clonal presence of inversion 16 and Philadelphia chromosome in relapsed post-treatment acute myeloid leukemia

November 2024—Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) stands out as the most prevalent form of leukemia, constituting 80 percent of cases in adults and 15 to 20 percent in children. It arises from the clonal proliferation of genetically aberrant hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, impeding normal hematopoiesis. AML is linked to a variable number of cytogenetic abnormalities, and the identification of these abnormalities holds crucial implications, given their association with an elevated risk of inherited AML.

For machine learning model use, turn to checklists

October 2024—Machine learning applications in molecular oncology testing are largely in the research or early clinical implementation phase, though some ML methods have been part of bioinformatics tasks for years, such as variant effect prediction.

Large B-cell lymphoma with IRF4 rearrangement of retroperitoneal lymph node in an elderly male with concomitant high-grade B-cell lymphoma without IRF4r masquerading as a gastric ulcer

October 2024—CAP TODAY and the Association for Molecular Pathology have teamed up to bring molecular case reports to CAP TODAY readers. AMP members write the reports using clinical cases from their own practices that show molecular testing’s important role in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. The following report comes from Henry Ford Health. If you would like to submit a case report, please send an email to the AMP at amp@amp.org. For more information about the AMP and all previously published case reports, visit www.amp.org.

Picture of clinical metagenomic NGS comes into view

August 2024—The number of laboratories performing clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing is limited, as is the number of sample types for which it’s available, but the range of pathogens mNGS detects is wide open.

Mutations and manifestations: what’s known about VEXAS

August 2024—The recently discovered VEXAS syndrome is caused by somatic mutations in the UBA1 gene arising in bone marrow stem cells. VEXAS (vacuoles, E1-ubiquitin-activating enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic) syndrome was discovered when National Institutes of Health researchers identified deleterious mutations in ubiquitin-related genes. In a retrospective observational study published last year, Beck, et al., evaluated UBA1 variants in exome data from the Geisinger MyCode Community Health Initiative, a health-system-based cohort of patients who provide samples for broad research use. Clinical phenotypes were determined from Geisinger EHR data spanning four to 25 years. UBA1 variants were found in one in 13,591 unrelated individuals, one in 4,269 men older than 50, and one in 26,238 women older than 50.

First looks and fast takes on LDT final rule

June 2024—The Food and Drug Administration’s final rule on laboratory-developed tests was released April 29 and published May 6. Shortly after, Compass Group laboratory leaders met online with CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle, who asked for their early reactions to what they heard and read. Among the categories for which the FDA has indicated its intent to exercise partial enforcement discretion are LDTs manufactured and performed by a laboratory that is integrated within a health system and that meet an unmet medical need. Here, this month, is the conversation that took place in early May. Next month we will publish our story on the final rule and the views of others. The Compass Group is an organization of not-for-profit IDN system lab leaders who collaborate to identify and share best practices and strategies.