Cancer Biology & Medicine (Mar 2019)

Application of next-generation sequencing technology to precision medicine in cancer: joint consensus of the Tumor Biomarker Committee of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology

  • Xuchao Zhang,
  • Zhiyong Liang,
  • Shengyue Wang,
  • Shun Lu,
  • Yong Song,
  • Ying Cheng,
  • Jianming Ying,
  • Weiping Liu,
  • Yingyong Hou,
  • Yangqiu Li,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Jun Hou,
  • Xiufeng Liu,
  • Jianyong Shao,
  • Yanhong Tai,
  • Zheng Wang,
  • Li Fu,
  • Hui Li,
  • Xiaojun Zhou,
  • Hua Bai,
  • Mengzhao Wang,
  • You Lu,
  • Jinji Yang,
  • Wenzhao Zhong,
  • Qing Zhou,
  • Xuening Yang,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Cheng Huang,
  • Xiaoqing Liu,
  • Xiaoyan Zhou,
  • Shirong Zhang,
  • Hongxia Tian,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Ruibao Ren,
  • Ning Liao,
  • Chunyan Wu,
  • Zhongzheng Zhu,
  • Hongming Pan,
  • Yanhong Gu,
  • Liwei Wang,
  • Yunpeng Liu,
  • Suzhan Zhang,
  • Tianshu Liu,
  • Gong Chen,
  • Zhimin Shao,
  • Binghe Xu,
  • Qingyuan Zhang,
  • Ruihua Xu,
  • Lin Shen,
  • Yilong Wu,
  • On behalf of Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) Tumor Biomarker Committee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2018.0142
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 1
pp. 189 – 204

Abstract

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Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology is capable of sequencing millions or billions of DNA molecules simultaneously. Therefore, it represents a promising tool for the analysis of molecular targets for the initial diagnosis of disease, monitoring of disease progression, and identifying the mechanism of drug resistance. On behalf of the Tumor Biomarker Committee of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) and the China Actionable Genome Consortium (CAGC), the present expert group hereby proposes advisory guidelines on clinical applications of NGS technology for the analysis of cancer driver genes for precision cancer therapy. This group comprises an assembly of laboratory cancer geneticists, clinical oncologists, bioinformaticians, pathologists, and other professionals. After multiple rounds of discussions and revisions, the expert group has reached a preliminary consensus on the need of NGS in clinical diagnosis, its regulation, and compliance standards in clinical sample collection. Moreover, it has prepared NGS criteria, the sequencing standard operation procedure (SOP), data analysis, report, and NGS platform certification and validation.

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