CAP education session about stomach cancer and gastric Her2 testing

March 6, 2013

In this 2013 video, Dr. Streutker talks about CAP protocols for stomach cancer, gastric Her2 testing and D2 surgery

Watch as Dr. Catherine Streutker talks about the gastric synoptic checklist and changes to it. She also talks about D2 surgery and Her2 testing.

CAP education session stomach cancer and gastric Her2 testing

About the presenter, Dr. Catherine Streutker

Catherine Streutker, MD, MSc, FRCPC, is the Director of the Surgical Pathology group at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She graduated in 1989 with her BSc in Biochemistry, Co-op from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. In 1991, she earned a Master’s degree in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Toronto (U of T). After graduating from medical school in 1994 at U of T, she entered the Anatomic Pathology Residency program and wrote the Royal College Exam in 1999. Dr. Streutker completed a two-year fellowship in Gastrointestinal Pathology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. In 2001, she joined the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at U of T and began as a Staff Pathologist at St. Michael’s Hospital.

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.