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Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 11:00-11:30 AM CT

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Roundtable presenters Nick Fingland, PhD, PMP, Senior Director, R&D Operations and Science, BD, and Chris Farnsworth, PhD, D(ABCC), Section Head of Clinical Chemistry, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Learn about digital pathology technology that is future-ready, yet practical for today’s
laboratory needs.

Webinar presenters Scott Hammond, Senior Systems Consultant, Digital Pathology Division, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology, and Ursula Hofer, Imaging Technologist, Pathology Digital Imaging Lab, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology, and Sandra Banky, PA(ASCP), Director of Operations, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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Pathology

A pathologist’s reflections after visiting a zipper factory

June 2025—Some years back, I flew south from New England, where I work as an academic cytopathologist, to North Carolina. My destination was an academic medical center where I was to give a talk on fine-needle aspiration biopsies. On my drive from the airport, I detoured to a small city that housed a company that manufactures zippers. There, on the factory floor, I watched newly made zippers exiting from rows of heavy steel machines. I asked myself: How is that like what we do as pathologists?

Taking on low, ultralow HER2 breast cancer

May 2025—Since the hunt began to identify low levels of HER2 in metastatic breast cancers, the action has revealed itself like the plot of a Henry James novel: Nothing much happens. Also, a lot happens. And each narrative thread is conveyed in hard-to-parse language. The goal has been to qualify patients for the antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd), which was shown in the Destiny-Breast04 trial to significantly improve survival in so-called HER2-low cases. Immunohistochemistry assays were designed to identify strongly positive cases, however, and thus not useful for those at the 0 and 1+ end of the spectrum. Now, several years after the presentation of the D-B04 results at the ASCO 2022 annual meeting, which launched the low-end ship, pathologists and oncologists are adjusting to the implications of the most recent Destiny trial, D-B06. In late January, the FDA approved the drug Enhertu for HER2-low or HER2-ultralow cases, as well as the Ventana Pathway HER2 (4B5) companion diagnostic for assessing these lower levels of HER2 in patients with metastatic breast cancer.

FIGO endometrial cancer staging, 2 years in

April 2025—Seen through the lens of metaphor, cancer staging is traffic control. Identify the biological crash, so to speak, and its severity; direct and redirect therapy; and try, ultimately, to unsnarl persistently risky crossings. That’s the sunny ideal. But efforts to improve traffic flow can also give rise to strong reactions, usually in words (if not a chorus of honking horns). Such is the case with the updated International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics staging system for endometrial cancer. FIGO 2023, by nearly all accounts, differs sharply from what had come before, incorporating molecular alterations, lymphovascular invasion, and tumor type and grade. Nearly two years later, it has yet to merge seamlessly into practice. “It definitely is controversial,” says Ekene Okoye, MD, associate professor of clinical pathology and genomic medicine, Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College.

At the VHA, a mass-scale move to digital pathology

April 2025—Unprecedented moves with a lot of moving parts is how Jessica Wang-Rodriguez, MD, of the Veterans Health Administration describes a transition to digital pathology the size of the VHA’s. It’s a mission that has become necessary, Dr. Wang-Rodriguez says of the large-scale digital pathology transformation. She is executive director of the VHA National Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Program Office, Washington, DC, and professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego.

Diagnostics, access, therapies on minds ahead of ASCO

April 2025—Rebecca Previs, MD, MS, gynecologic oncologist and director of medical affairs at Labcorp, captures the vibe ahead of the ASCO conference next month in Chicago in just a few words. “It’s exciting,” she says. “This is unprecedented territory.” With the field undergoing “a major shift toward biology-driven rather than tissue-of-origin-driven oncology treatment,” Dr. Previs is far from the only industry representative who is optimistic about the future—though the many challenges ahead temper that excitement.

Staining, scoring tips for claudin 18 assay

March 2025—The Ventana CLDN18 (43-14A) RxDx Assay, the companion diagnostic for zolbetuximab, detects the claudin 18 protein in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded gastric adenocarcinoma including gastroesophageal junction tissue specimens. Gastric intestinal metaplasia can be used as a positive tissue control and system level control and should display weak to moderate membrane staining.

What oncology patients say about pathology reports

March 2025—A study of oncology patients at the Medical College of Wisconsin sheds light on how they perceive the content and timing of pathology report review. The study findings were gathered through in-person and telehealth interviews with patients with breast, endocrine, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and thoracic malignancies. Medical student Amber Y. Bo, MD, in 2022 and 2023 conducted 230 interviews with patients who had a prior opportunity to review their reports in the patient portal.

Department takes digital pathology to new level

January 2025—Pathology informatics leaders at the University of Michigan are moving in steps to a fully digital practice as they put in place an innovative workflow for primary diagnosis. Fresh off their August launch of the new workflow program within their remodeled histology lab, informatics directors in the pathology department say Michigan Medicine is the first in the U.S. to have radiology and pathology operating in the same shared picture archiving and communication system, or PACS, and to implement the well-established DICOM standard for pathology workflow.

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