CAP education session about ovarian cancer 2011

February 9, 2011

In this 2011 video, Dr. McLachlin talks about the 2010 CAP checklist for protocols related to ovarian cancer

Watch as Dr. Meg McLachlin talks about the 2010 CAP checklist for ovarian cancer, including the checklist’s trickier parts, ovarian cancer staging and a comparison with the fallopian tubes checklist. She also talks about ovarian cancer type and grading, as well as FIGO and TNM staging.

CAP education session about ovarian cancer

About the presenter, Dr. Meg McLachlin

Meg McLachlin, MD, FRCPC, is the Deputy Chief of Pathology at London Health Sciences Centre and a Professor in the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Department at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. She is the Chair of the Pan-Canadian Cervical Screening Initiative for the Partnership and the past Chair of the Canadian Society of Cytology.

About the CAP education sessions

The Partnership, the Canadian Association of Pathologists (CAP-ACP), and Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) have organized this College of American Pathologists (CAP) education session.

In July 2009, the CAP-ACP endorsed the cancer protocols developed by CAP as the Canada-wide standard for all cancer-pathology reporting. To date, CAP protocols have been implemented in six Canadian provinces with the CAP-ACP’s support.

The protocols help pathologists to report effectively about diagnostic and prognostic findings, which are critical to patient care and the collection of collaborative stage data. The protocols were developed by multidisciplinary teams and are supported by CAP in both paper and electronic formats.