April 2024—Member organizations of the Enduring Consensus Cervical Cancer Screening and Management Guidelines effort released in March their recommendations for the use of p16/Ki-67 dual stain for managing individuals who test positive for HPV. The post Put It on the Board first appeared on CAP TODAY ..read more

Genomic profile availability impact on NSCLC patient outcomes in real word study and daily practice Thursday, June 13, 2024, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM ET Webinar presenters Melina Marmarelis, MD, MSCE, and Salvatore Fortunato Priore, MD, PhD, will discuss a real-world cohort study using electronic health records to assess the impact of the genomic profile availability to guide 1st line therapy on patient outcomes. They found that availability of molecular genotyping results before 1L therapy was associated with significantly better OS, and also, that concurrent tissue and plasma testing was associated w ..read more

April 2024—The article “Test adds twists to lung disease diagnosis” (November 2023, page 1) virtually ignores the major problem of clinicians in the hospital thinking that it is perfectly okay to take specimens from patients in the hospital and send them directly to whatever laboratory they choose without input from the hospital’s laboratory administration or medical director. The laboratory medical director is legally responsible for approving the menu of laboratory tests to be performed in-house and all of the reference laboratories to be used. The post Letters first appeared on CAP TODAY ..read more

April 2024—Too few people, too much to do. In that, Duke Health’s molecular diagnostics laboratory is no different from any other laboratory. But competing for staff on the basis of money alone is out. “The reality is that in today’s labor market, any molecular technologist can always find a job that pays more,” says Barbara Anderson, PhD, MB(ASCP)CM, analytical specialist in Duke’s molecular diagnostics laboratory, Division of Molecular Pathology, Genetics, and Genomics. The post How Duke’s molecular diagnostics lab retains and trains first appeared on CAP TODAY ..read more

April 2024—Transitioning to digital pathology can seem complex and costly. And for some, but not all, laboratories, cost in particular can be a barrier to adoption. So how do you determine which camp your lab falls into? You calculate, according to Orly Ardon, PhD, director of digital pathology operations at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The post Newsbytes first appeared on CAP TODAY ..read more

April 18, 2024—Quantimetrix announced that its Dipper POCT urinalysis dipstick control pouches now include a barcode. The post Quantimetrix Dipper POCT now with integrated barcode first appeared on CAP TODAY ..read more

April 2024—The rise in fungal infections in recent years troubles Sean Zhang, MD, PhD, for reasons near and far. It’s readily apparent in the patient populations at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he is director of the mycology laboratory. Especially concerning is the increase in Candida auris following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, both in terms of colonization and infection cases, says Dr. Zhang, who is also associate professor of pathology, Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Since 2022, we suddenly saw an uptick in C ..read more

April 2024—As the call for fast turnaround of genetic testing results in tumor profiling grows louder, the need for rapid, reliable test methods becomes more pressing. The post Need for speed in solid tumor molecular testing first appeared on CAP TODAY ..read more

April 2024—In billing for pathology and laboratory services, the hurdles are only getting higher. Narrow networks, prior authorizations, claims denials. Payers “have deeper pockets and figure they can outlast us,” said Joe Saad, MD, chair of the CAP Council on Government and Professional Affairs, in a Feb. 14 roundtable led online by CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle. He and others talked about AI, digital pathology codes and molecular Z-Codes, biomarker testing, and unity within the laboratory community. The post Billing headwinds grow stronger for labs first appeared on CAP TODAY ..read more

April 2024—With the technology now available, could and should remote diagnos-tic pathology, or at least a hybrid model, become more the norm in the future? The post Hybrid practice model beckons as solution first appeared on CAP TODAY ..read more