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
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
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
November 2023—Reports—integrated or otherwise—were up for discussion when CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle convened online in October a group of informatics experts, who spoke of the need for simplicity in a time of growing complexity, ease of access, where Epic isn’t strong. The full conversation follows.
October 2023—In living up to its promise as a new technology that will revolutionize clinical care through greater ease, speed, and accuracy of diagnosis, digital pathology has been sluggish. While many analysts, starting at least two decades ago, forecasted that digital pathology would elbow aside glass slides for good, that milestone is still far out of reach. As health economist and chief executive officer of the New York City-based digital pathology company Paige, Andy Moye, PhD, puts it bluntly: “In probably 90 to 95 percent of the cases in the U.S., a pathologist still makes the diagnosis of cancer the way they did it back in 1910: by looking at a glass slide under a microscope.” Mark Lloyd, PhD, vice president of pathology for Fujifilm, says he wouldn’t be surprised to hear that perhaps only five percent to 10 percent of hospitals have moved beyond using only glass slides to offer pathologists digital pathology capability. In fact, Dr. Lloyd thinks those percentages are overstated. What is the market share for the clinical use of digital pathology?
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.
October 2023—A CAP accreditation program requirement that microbiology laboratories use current antimicrobial susceptibility testing breakpoints, which was added to the checklist in 2021, will go into effect Jan. 1, 2024.
October 2023—Orders for cerebrospinal fluid testing for Alzheimer’s disease have grown at Mayo Clinic since spring 2020, when testing was first offered. When aducanumab was approved in May 2021, test orders jumped.
October 2023—For molecular testing in oncology, the choice is often fast or slow. PCR-based platforms are rapid, and comprehensive genomic profiling by next-generation sequencing is slower, and each has its pros and cons.
October 2023—New this month from CAP Publications is Whole Blood Viscoelastic Assays in Clinical Diagnosis: An Illustrated Case-Based Guide. Viscoelastic testing was designed to determine the cause of intraoperative or trauma-related bleeding to guide hemostatic therapy. CAP TODAY asked the book’s editor, Oksana Volod, MD, about the guide. See her answers and a sample chapter. Dr. Volod is professor of pathology and director of the coagulation consultative service, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
October 2023—Next-generation sequencing of tumor tissue has important implications in solid and hematologic malignancies because it can identify genomic variants that provide diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive information to guide clinical management. Variants identified on tumor sequencing can be classified as somatic (acquired after conception) or inherited through germline.
October 2023—Hematology analyzers and the related workflow, expertise, efficiency, and IT matters were the topic of a roundtable when CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle met online Aug. 29 with two pathologists and representatives from Horiba, Siemens, Sysmex, CellaVision, Sight, and Abbott. Their conversation follows.
Fernando Chaves, what are the advances in artificial intelligence in the field of hematology, particularly automated hematology, since we spoke during our roundtable at this time last year?
Fernando Chaves, MD, global head of hematology, Siemens Healthineers: Technology now enables full-field digital morphology, a full image of the entire slide scan. Now we can do with hematology what has been done for over a decade in surgical pathology.
September 2023—Laboratory testing for paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes is neither commonplace nor cheap. It also comes with its own enigmatical math, as Michael Levy, MD, PhD, recently experienced. As the director of the Neuroimmunology Clinic and Research Laboratory in Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Neurology, Dr. Levy keeps an eye on PNS laboratory testing (which is performed at Mayo Clinic) at his institution.
