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CNN video features CAP member, Roger Klein MD, FCAP on the gene patent case.
Angelina Jolie revealed this week that she decided to get a double mastectomy after taking a genetic test—a test that only one company in the U.S. can offer.

CAP Challenges AHRQ on Genetic Test Definitions
CAP went on record again challenging the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ’s) definition of genetic tests. Read more.

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Advancing Digital Pathology: New CAP Guidelines on WSI Validation
Liron Pantanowitz

We saw how eager our colleagues were for guidance—both pathologists who had already invested in this technology, but were unsure of how it should be used right now in their clinical environment, as well as those who were waiting, anxiously, to invest in this technology. Read more.



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New Clinical Pathology Improvement Program: Case 5 - Microbiology Syphilis Serology: Traditional or Reverse Laboratory Approach to Testing (SAM eligible). Enroll now.

Jolie’s Announcement Spotlights Gene
Patent Case

Personalized medicine now has a very public face, following Angelina Jolie’s revelation in Tuesday’s New York Times Op-Ed that she had a preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. Read more.

CAP Releases First Evidence-Based Guideline for Validating Whole Slide Imaging
Read the guideline available in Archives. Download a summary of the recommendations and related ebook chapter.

CAP ’13 Policy Meeting Emphasizes Reform Challenges, Opportunities
Pathologists’ commitment to precision and quality medicine—the health care reform law’s tenets—is becoming ever more central to system reform, emphasized CAP leaders, lawmakers and health care policy experts at the CAP 2013 Policy Meeting, held May 6-8 in Washington, DC.

CAP TODAY – May 2013
Standard of care hits close to home
Town versus gown: It’s a long-standing source of tension in medicine. In November 1963, JAMA published a piece on the pathology of this so-called syndrome.
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