Clinical applicability and cost of a 46-gene panel for genomic analysis of solid tumours: Retrospective validation and prospective audit in the UK National Health Service.

<h4>Background</h4>Single gene tests to predict whether cancers respond to specific targeted therapies are performed increasingly often. Advances in sequencing technology, collectively referred to as next generation sequencing (NGS), mean the entire cancer genome or parts of it can now b...

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Main Authors: Angela Hamblin, Sarah Wordsworth, Jilles M Fermont, Suzanne Page, Kulvinder Kaur, Carme Camps, Pamela Kaisaki, Avinash Gupta, Denis Talbot, Mark Middleton, Shirley Henderson, Anthony Cutts, Dimitrios V Vavoulis, Nick Housby, Ian Tomlinson, Jenny C Taylor, Anna Schuh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-02-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002230