CAP education session about the renal pelvis, ureter and urethra

April 13, 2013

In this 2013 video, Dr. Trpkov talks about CAP protocols for examining specimens from patients with renal pelvis, ureter and urethra cancers

Watch as Dr. Kiril Trpkov talks about protocols for examining specimens from patients with renal pelvis, ureter and urethra carcinomas. He also talks about reporting and sampling.

CAP education session about cancers of the renal pelvis, ureter and urethra

About the presenter, Dr. Kiril Krpkov

Kiril Trpkov, MD, FRCPC, is a Full Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) and a consultant in urologic pathology for the Southern Alberta Institute of Urology and the Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary. During the last decade, Dr. Trpkov has established the Anatomical Pathology Laboratory at Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary as one of the largest centralized uropathology centres in North America.

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.