May 2026—When it comes to cancer mutations, there are big fish in little ponds, and little fish in big ponds, and big fish in big ponds, and little fish in little ponds. The ESR1 mutation and its emergence in advanced breast cancer is still deciding what stripe of fish it is—or rather, breast specialists, researchers, and the FDA are in the midst of figuring out potentially important uses …
Dr. Rohit Bhargava
May 2026—Two years after the Food and Drug Administration approved the first HPV self-collection devices, physicians and cervical cancer prevention advocates are debating the best use for the new screening option.
May 2026—In the laboratory general accreditation checklist in the 2025 edition, released last December, is new emphasis on a prospective risk assessment process in the laboratory’s quality management …
April 2026—CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle spoke on Feb. 19 with Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Ravi Gupta, MBA, VP and general manager; Robert Balog, PhD, MBA, senior director, research and development; and Poulomi Acharya, PhD, senior director, global product management and market development, genetic sciences.
Bob McGonnagle: Thermo Fisher launched last fall the SwiftArrayStudio, a next-generation microarray analyzer that will support genomics research and clinical applications through the use of laboratory-validated and -developed tests. Ravi Gupta, what motivated the development of this analyzer?
Ravi Gupta: The SwiftArrayStudio resulted from listening to customers. It addresses the scientific and operational pressures observed in modern genomics. I call them the real-world needs. For decades, labs across human predictive genomics and agrigenomics have dealt with persistent challenges in workflow complexity, inconsistent turnaround times, and escalating costs. Continue reading …
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February 2026—Prepared with expert insight from Anil Parwani, MD, PhD; Scott Hammond; and Melinda Schumacher, MD, Grundium’s white paper describes, from a pathologist’s perspective, how compact WSI systems can shorten consult turnaround times and reduce variability, improve access to subspecialty review without adding travel or courier burden, enhance community pathologists’ professional satisfaction and confidence, support scalable, secure, and validated workflows and lay the foundation for AI and advanced analytics as digital adoption grows. Download the white paper here.
May 2026—The CAP recently reached a record high of over 20,000 members, strengthening its advocacy efforts. Through PathPAC, the CAP engages with federal policymakers to advocate for pathologists and patient care. The CAP also advocates for the pathology community through its involvement with the AMA.
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May 2026—The fast-changing world of sequencing was the topic that a panel of pathologists and industry representatives dug into in a Feb. 27 online roundtable, led by CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle.
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May 2026—Preserving tissue for molecular and other biomarker studies is top of mind for many, and in a CAP25 lung cancer session last fall, an approach to doing so was presented.
May 2026—Has your blood collection container been validated for the assays you have employed it for? At what point does a verification of a blood collection tube become a validation, and how is a laboratory supposed to know when this threshold has been crossed and what actions to take?
May 2026—Cystatin C has notable advantages over serum creatinine as a biomarker of kidney filtration: fewer nonglomerular filtration rate determinants, more accurate dosing of medications with narrow therapeutic windows for individuals with obesity or low muscle mass, and greater accuracy in determining eligibility for a kidney transplant or for a simultaneous liver-kidney or heart-kidney transplant.
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May 2026—City of Hope is implementing Quest Diagnostics’ Haystack MRD, a circulating-tumor DNA minimal residual disease test, for clinical trial patients with solid tumor cancers to help guide disease management for breast, colorectal, ovarian, and prostate cancer.