Standards and Guidelines

Over the summer a longtime friend asked if I could review some slides for a friend of his, or actually from his friend’s wife. Of course I agreed to do so. He mentioned that she had “metastatic breast cancer” and wanted to make sure the...

Facebook and a number of folks last night during a bad time for the Chicago Blackhawks made me aware of a piece by Ms. Landro at the Wall Street Journal that touches on a number of issues including mention of use of digital pathology for image...

The NPR (5/1, Haelle) “Shots” blog reports that yesterday, the American College of Physicians released guidelines “that aim to reduce unnecessary” cervical cancer “screening. They say that no women should be getting annual Pap...

Pathologists and histotechnologists team to provide recommendations to standardize block and slide labeling practices Recently the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the National Society for Histotechnology (NSH) released the first...

Boston, MA - After cementing interface protocols for a seamless integration, the College of American Pathologists’ electronic Forms and Reporting Module (CAP eFRM) is MEDITECH's recommended synoptic reporting solution for pathology. CAP eFRM...

With almost 1 million new cases per year, gastric cancer is currently the number four most common malignant disease. Today, there is no universal standard treatment. Recently, however, the ToGA trial demonstrated efficacy of Trastuzumab...