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
September 2026—Amyloidosis has become a treatable disease—if the fibril type is identified accurately and quickly. That and the variability seen in its workup and diagnosis were the impetus for the recently published CAP amyloidosis guideline. The co-chairs of the guideline expert panel provided, in a CAP25 session, what they described as their own tips and tricks for amyloid detection and fibril typing, reported here.
September 2026—Technology and regulation have always co-evolved, and artificial intelligence should be no exception. “The tech industry would have Americans believe there should be no regulation of anything that has AI in its title until such time as the technology is fully matured and ready to be regulated,” says Brian R. Jackson, MD, MS, professor of pathology, director of clinical pathology, and CLIA director of laboratories, University of Maryland Medical Center. He calls it “complete gaslighting.”
September 2026—What do leaders of the Digital Pathology Association have to say about where digital pathology stands now and what to expect from AI? Six DPA leaders met online July 24 with CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle to talk about the technology and the tools. Many patients still don’t understand pathology’s role, said Orly Ardon, PhD, MBA, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, “and AI can create additional concerns if it is not explained properly.”
September 2026—About 30 percent of soft tissue sarcomas are associated with chromosomal translocations leading to the formation of chimeric fusion genes that modify cellular function, leading to dysregulation of proliferation and resulting in clinically and genetically distinct neoplasms. EWSR1 is a commonly rearranged gene in sarcomas that can fuse as the 5’ partner with various genes. EWSR1-rearranged sarcomas include angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma, clear cell sarcoma of soft parts, Ewing sarcoma, desmoplastic small round cell tumor (DSRCT), extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma, myxoid liposarcoma, clear cell sarcoma-like tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as round cell sarcoma with EWSR1-non-ETS fusions. Herein, we report an unusual case of EWSR1-POU5F1 fusion in an undifferentiated sarcoma. It has previously been described in myoepithelial tumors,3 but it has been described in undifferentiated sarcomas only a couple of times in the literature, to the best of our knowledge.
September 2026—As transitions to a digital pathology workflow grow in number, the question may become less about the extent to which digital slide assessment will be used in practice and more about how to work with those slides. While scanners, image management systems, and storage are most talked about, among other things, researchers at Western University in London, Ontario, turned their attention to the interface itself. They studied whether eye- and head-tracking technologies can serve as alternative input devices to hand-based input devices for digital pathology tasks.
August 2026—Testing for homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) is not for the faint of heart. Even the experts agree. Tricia Numan, MD, says that when she first became involved in the topic, “I didn’t realize how many components went into HRD testing,” including germline alterations, somatic alterations, and various classifications of genomic instability.
August 2026—In a summer of more ticks, more diseases, and more tick species expanding to new areas and bringing diseases with them, what Bobbi Pritt, MD, MSc, would like to see are more—and better—diagnostics in early Lyme disease. Laboratory scientists are inching toward improved solutions, though nothing is commercially available now. “I’m cautiously optimistic. I wouldn’t say I’m excited yet,” says Dr. Pritt, co-director of vector-borne diseases laboratory services and chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
August 2026—Recognizing and reporting histologic subtypes and divergent differentiation in urothelial carcinoma is critical for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. “Ideally, you want to mention the subtype histologies in pathology reports and quantify the amount,” said Francesca Khani, MD, associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and in the Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine. In a CAP25 session last fall, Dr. Khani spoke of the mimics of benign entities and of other malignancies.
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.”
