Category: Weekly Roundup

2 June 2023: Weekly Roundup #122

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists Update

Congratulations to our Image Contest winners! Check out the winning images here.

We are excited about how our Worldwide Directory of Pathologists will help pathologists learn about each other and work better together. However, we are also concerned about keeping information as private as possible despite our free, no registration website. Towards this end, we prohibit anyone from copying or compiling Directory data to create their own databases or the equivalent and will take action against any violators. We intentionally do not provide lists of complete data for any searches and have restricted emails to show up only one at a time on an individual profile, not in any lists. Let us know if you have any comments or questions at Comments@PathologyOutlines.com.

2. Dr. Pernick’s Essay on HPV Related Cancers

Dr. Pernick’s new post on human papillomavirus (HPV) related cancers is important because almost every unvaccinated person who is sexually active will get HPV at some time in their life. Read it at natpernick.substack.com/p/human-papillomavirus-hpv-related and email any comments or questions to Nat@PathologyOutlines.com.

Electron microscopy of HPV type 16 capsid protein (Image source, Wikipedia page)

3. How Do Cancer Metastases Arise?

Dr. Pernick has posted Part 1 of a 4 part series, from a pathologist’s perspective, at pathologyoutlines.com/ccnblog/howmetastasesarise1.html. He welcomes your questions and comments at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com but unfortunately cannot provide medical advice.

19 May 2023: Weekly Roundup #121

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. Tip of the Month – May 2023

We have posted a YouTube video highlighting our comment / feedback features for the May 2023 edition of PathologyOutlines.com’s Tip of the Month. View it at https://youtube.com/shorts/xp1kqW5JJlw.

2. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists Update

We have updated the Directory name search. It now has a left hand match against either the first or last name. This means it will search from the beginning of either of these names. It will not find letters in the middle of these names or in a middle name.

3. PathologyOutlines.com Topics

How can we tell if a topic is available or if it has been assigned? “(Pending)” in the title just means there is no content yet, so that doesn’t tell anything about whether the topic has been assigned. To see if a topic is assigned, view the topic and the “Last staff update” section. If it says “(update in progress)”, then the topic was assigned. If not, it has not been assigned; however, topics are assigned daily, so we need to check again before we assign a topic to you.

4. Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Essay

Rep. Jamie Raskin has been diagnosed with and treated for diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Dr. Pernick’s essay about this disease, from a pathologist’s perspective, is posted at
https://natpernick.substack.com/p/diffuse-large-b-cell-lymphoma-an.

Malignant cells that are pleomorphic (i.e., they differ from each other), a feature of high grade cancers.

28 April 2023: Weekly Roundup #120

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists Image Contest

This is your last chance to vote for your favorite Directory image by April 30th! Watch this video to learn more about the contest and vote here: surveymonkey.com/r/favorite_image

2. New Deputy Editor-in-Chief for GI Pathology

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Aaron R. Huber, D.O. as our new Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Gastrointestinal Pathology. Dr. Huber completed his D.O. degree at the University of Health Sciences-College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas City, Missouri. He completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Naval Medical Center San Diego in San Diego, California and his fellowship in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. He is currently the Director of the Surgical Pathology Unit and Co-Director of the Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Pathology Fellowship at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

3. New Informatics Topic

We are currently working on strengthening our Informatics, digital & computational pathology chapter. Check out our new topic on Automated assessment of cytology specimens by Drs. Joshua Levy and Louis Vaickus.

4. New Podcast

Dr. Pernick was recently featured in a podcast with Aleksandra Zuraw, D.V.M., Ph.D. of Digital Pathology Place. Listen at https://bit.ly/PathologyOutlinesComInc or watch here:

21 April 2023: Weekly Roundup #119

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists Image Contest

Vote for your favorite Directory image by April 30th! Watch this video to learn more about the contest and vote here: surveymonkey.com/r/favorite_image

2. Prolific Authors

We have recently posted our most prolific authors for 2022 here and the winners of our 2022 Best Author Awards here! View our updated Author page at pathologyoutlines.com/authors.

3. What the Medical Community Has Learned From Studying Pancreatic Cancer

Our new essay at pathologyoutlines.com/ccnblog/strategicplandiscussion7.html discusses what the medical community has learned from studying pancreatic cancer. The below images are from the essay and were contributed by Wei Chen, M.D. and Claudio Luchini, M.D., Ph.D.

Malignant pancreatic ducts (high power)
Pancreatic cancer in the tail, close to the spleen

Email Dr. Pernick any questions or comments at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com. Unfortunately, he cannot provide medical advice.

14 April 2023: Weekly Roundup #118

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. Curing Cancer Network Newsletters

Click here to sign up for our Curing Cancer Network (CCN) newsletter. We now list our prior newsletters at pathologyoutlines.com/ccnnewsletter.html.

2. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists Image Contest

Vote for your favorite Directory image by April 30th! Watch this video to learn more about the contest and vote here: surveymonkey.com/r/favorite_image

3. Photo Essay on Melanoma

We have a new photo essay on melanoma (malignant melanoma) at natpernick.substack.com/p/cancer-images-melanoma. Email any questions or comments to Nat@PathologyOutlines.com.

Contributed by
Julia Nunley, M.D.
Contributed by
Michele Donati, M.D.
Contributed by
Jijgee Munkhdelger, M.D., Ph.D. and Andrey Bychkov, M.D., Ph.D.

4. Website Traffic

We had record traffic in March 2023 with an average of 66,757 sessions (visits) per day and monthly totals of 2,069,469 visits, 461,027 home page views and 4,858,506 page views. Thanks for your support.

We are currently hiring our 25th employee to increase the pace of the textbook updates as well as completing our Worldwide Directory of Pathologists for the U.S. and Canada and testing the feasibility of hosting our own whole slide images.

7 April 2023: Weekly Roundup #117

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists Image Contest

Vote for your favorite Directory image by April 30th! Watch this video to learn more about the contest and vote here: surveymonkey.com/r/favorite_image

2. Informatics

We are currently working on strengthening our Informatics, digital & computational pathology chapter. Check out our revised topic on Natural language processing by Drs. David Nai and Jerome Cheng.

3. The Pathology Job Market Post-COVID: Where are We Now?

Dr. Debra L. Zynger (our prior Editor-in-Chief) and Dr. Nat Pernick presented a poster at USCAP, “The Pathology Job Market Post-COVID: Where are We Now?” A PDF version of the poster, along with other related links, are listed at the top of our jobs page.

24 March 2023: Weekly Roundup #116

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. 2022 Year in Review Video

We have posted a YouTube video highlighting the significant changes that were made to PathologyOutlines.com in 2022. View it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itFpiInjRrQ.

2. What’s New in Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology E-Newsletter

Make sure to sign up for our What’s New in Pathology newsletter at pathologyoutlines.com/subscribe.html. The upcoming newsletter, to be sent out next week, is What’s New in Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology 2023: Guidelines for Molecular Testing. You can view our previous What’s New in Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology newsletter here and our other subspecialty newsletters here.

Read our previous What’s New in Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology newsletter here.

3. Curing Cancer Network: Social Media Accounts

We are now posting interesting images of malignancies on our Curing Cancer Network social media accounts. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

17 March 2023: Weekly Roundup #115

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. Informatics

We are strengthening our Informatics, digital & computational pathology chapter with our revised topic on AP Laboratory information systems by Drs. Jonah and Parwani. Let Dr. Pernick know of any suggested new topics at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com.

2. Image Contest

We have started a contest for the best Directory image. Instructions and voting are at surveymonkey.com/r/favorite_image. Voting ends on April 30, 2023. Email any questions to Directory@PathologyOutlines.com.

Some of the images from our Directory image contest!

3. Curing Cancer Network: Cancer Prevention

Replacing a poor diet with more nutritious foods has sizable health benefits at any age. The Washington Post (October 18, 2022, O’Connor) reports a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine that shows “people can gain sizable health benefits at any age by cutting back on highly processed foods loaded with salt, sugar and other additives and replacing them with more nutritious foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, lentils, seafood and whole grains.” In the study, researchers followed roughly 74,000 people between the ages of 30 and 75 for over 2 decades and found that “people who had consistently high diet scores were up to 14% less likely to die of any cause during the study period compared to people who had consistently poor diets.”

Eating fiber alters the microbiome. It may boost cancer treatment too because the composition of the gut microbiome appears to influence whether immunotherapy is successful (The Washington Post: Eating fiber alters the microbiome. It may boost cancer treatment, too. [Accessed 16 March 2023]).

3 March 2023: Weekly Roundup #114

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists

Our Directory profiles now have links for the institutions and subspecialties selected. For example, our Editor-in-Chief Dr. Raul Gonzalez has links on his profile for Emory University and GI / liver that show all other pathologists in the Directory who are at Emory or specialize in GI / liver subspecialty. See the blue box at pathologyoutlines.com/directory for information on adding or changing your free Directory profile.

2. PathologyOutlines.com E-Newsletters

Are you getting the e-newslettters from PathologyOutlines.com that you want? The list of available e-newsletters / e-blasts is at pathologyoutlines.com/subscribe.html. You can try subscribing or editing your entry. For some people, however, that does not work. If not, email Comments@PathologyOutlines.com and tell us what emails you want to receive.

3. Curing Cancer Network: American Cancer Society – Annual Report

The American Cancer Society published its annual report to the nation on the status of cancer on October 27, 2022. It concludes that “Cancer death rates continued to decline overall, for children, and for adolescents and young adults, and treatment advances have led to accelerated declines in death rates for several sites, such as lung and melanoma.” See Cancer 2022;128:4251 for the remainder of the report.

24 February 2023: Weekly Roundup #113

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. New Editorial Board Appointments

Kimberley J. Evason, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Kimberley Evason was recently appointed to our Editorial Board for Gastrointestinal Pathology. Dr. Evason is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Utah. She obtained her M.D. and Ph.D. through the Medical Scientist Training Program at Washington University in St. Louis. She then completed her Anatomic Pathology residency, fellowship in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology, and postdoctoral research training at University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Jared Ahrendsen was recently appointed to our Editorial Board for Neuropathology. Dr. Ahrendsen is an Assistant Professor of Pathology of Neuropathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chciago. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He then completed a combined Anatomic Pathology / Neuropathology residency and fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston, where he also served as Chief Resident. He also completed a fellowship in Forensic Pathology at the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. His research interests include molecular diagnostics of brain tumors, trauma related neuropathology and the utilization of postmortem tissue to better understand human neurologic disease.

2. Informatics

Learn about Informatics, digital & computational pathology at pathologyoutlines.com/informatics.html. Make sure to read our topic on Computational pathology fundamentals & applications, written by Yomna Amer, M.B.B.Ch. and Anil Parwani, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.

3. Potential PathologyOutlines.com App

We are considering setting up a free mobile app. It would resemble what is currently available when using the website on mobile but, at least initially, the topics would be limited to the most important sections and we would try to improve formatting. Email Nat@PathologyOutlines.com with any suggestions.

For mobile use of the website, there is no option to convert to the standard home page, header and footer. Our decision to have mobile pages conform to the screen size apparently eliminated that option. We have added more links to the “Other links” tab on our homepage so you should be able to access all important pages.