Workflow, specimen transport under the lens at AACC
June 2023—Transporting specimens to the laboratory, and processing and distributing them within the lab, will be what AACC meeting-goers hear about in a session next month.
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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
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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
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Hear an expert discuss the challenges of detecting NRG1 fusions and how RNA-based testing can support more comprehensive fusion identification in clinical practice.
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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
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Kaiser, Geisinger: the first of similar headlines?
June 2023—Consolidation in health care makes the news often. But the coming together of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger Health and their launch of Risant Health got special attention. CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle asked Compass Group members for their take on the acquisition when they met online on May 2.
ABPath’s plans for transparency, competency pilot
June 2023—Three initiatives are underway at the American Board of Pathology, one of which its CEO Gary Procop, MD, MS, describes as “a new era of transparency and collaboration.”
Appendiceal lesions: features, subtypes, patterns
June 2023—Although goblet cell adenocarcinoma can label for neuroendocrine markers, it behaves as an adenocarcinoma and is staged as such. And it’s important to distinguish goblet cell adenocarcinoma from tubular neuroendocrine tumor, a rare subtype of neuroendocrine tumor.
The intersection of news, core labs, and lab costs
June 2023—As CAP TODAY assembled its annual guides to chemistry and immunoassay analyzers (for this issue and the July issue), publisher Bob McGonnagle brought together IVD manufacturers and lab leaders to talk about consolidation and ever-larger health systems, technology, efficiencies, and centralized and decentralized testing.
Colorectal cancer next on HER2 horizon
May 2023—Behold the common coin. Note its two sides, its easy flippability. Here is Joseph Pizzolato, MD, with the first coin toss. Given the expanded use of biomarkers with a variety of tumors, and constantly evolving assays, how hard is it for medical oncologists to navigate testing? “It’s not difficult at all now,” says a cheerful Dr. Pizzolato, medical director of the comprehensive therapeutic unit of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System, as well as medical director of the Aventura satellite at Sylvester. With third-party companies integrating test ordering directly into electronic medical records, he adds, “It’s getting even easier to order tests and see the results.” Agreed, says his colleague Rhonda Yantiss, MD, director of surgical pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. And therein lies the problem. “It’s kind of a mess,” she says. In practice, precision medicine is becoming both more and less precise.
Alzheimer’s biomarkers: CSF reports, plasma prospects
May 2023—For fluid biomarkers in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the pace of research and related industry and regulatory developments in the past year has been brisk.
‘Hundreds of variants’—Staying alert to HbA1c method interference
May 2023—Of the five methods used to measure HbA1c—immunoassay, boronate affinity, enzymatic, capillary electrophoresis, and ion-exchange HPLC—only the latter two can alert the laboratory and physician to the presence of a suspected hemoglobin variant. Even so, there are reasons to be cautious.
In-house or send-out? Lab approaches to gene panels
May 2023—Achieving standardization and setting up processes around the use of next-generation sequencing panels for the care of patients with cancer is a long road requiring a lot of expertise.
Supported? Satisfied? Keeping staff from moving on
May 2023—When hiring is difficult, how to improve retention becomes what it’s all about. Linking sign-on bonuses with performance metrics rather than time in the job is one way to try to retain employees in an industry in which demand for staff far outweighs the supply.