Oral medicine practice in Europe and Australia: Identifying practitioner characteristics and their clinical activity.

Oral Medicine is a young dental specialty born almost a century ago and deals with orofacial conditions not directly attributable to the most prevalent tooth pathologies such as dental caries or periodontal diseases. Presentations may reflect local disease or orofacial manifestations of more widespread pathology affecting other parts of the body. Due to its recency as a distinct discipline and to heterogeneous global settings, Oral Medicine has not yet achieved a shared scope and definition, as well as a recognized status across the globe.

ASCO/CAP 2018 breast cancer HER2 testing guidelines: summary of pertinent recommendations for practice in Australia.

The latest update to the American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists (ASCO/CAP) HER2 testing in breast cancer guidelines was published in 2018. A multidisciplinary expert committee, convened under the auspices of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) Structured Pathology Reporting framework, evaluated the implications of these guidelines for clinical practice in Australia. Following feedback from professional bodies, including the RCPA and CanSAC, peer review was invited.