Advances in Molecular Testing Offer New Hope for Lung Cancer Patients
Association for Molecular PathologyLeading health care organizations issue guideline recommendations for molecular testing and targeted therapies.
Leading health care organizations issue guideline recommendations for molecular testing and targeted therapies.
The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) released a report today in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics on recommendations for a molecular diagnostics curriculum at both the baccalaureate and master鈥檚 levels of education.
In general, the article supports the notion that this type of diagnostic testing in and of itself allows for earlier diagnosis, faster and more targeted treatment, reduced costs, and increased quality of life and even increased lifespan for the patient.
The article describes the current and future roles of the laboratory professional as genomic sequencing analysis becomes an ever more increasingly important tool in diagnostic medicine.
In 2014, AMP, with the help of Boston Healthcare Associates, gathered more than a dozen protocols to analyze cost information about laboratory validation, pre-analytics, sequencing, bioinformatics, and interpretation. A major objective of the project was to provide laboratories with tools to accurately estimate the cost of performing GSP services. The CPT codes for these GSPs went into effect on January 1, 2015. To help establish favorable reimbursement for these GSP services, the release of these tools deliberately coincided with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services鈥 (CMS) gapfill timeline. Laboratories can use them to effectively communicate the cost and value of various GSP services to their Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs).
The Association for Molecular Pathology has published guideline recommendations for both clinical laboratory professionals and oncologists that assess the status of next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based cancer tests and establish standardized classification, annotation, interpretation, and reporting conventions for somatic sequence variants.
AMP has published guideline recommendations for both clinical laboratory professionals and oncologists that assess the status of next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based cancer tests and establish standardized classification, annotation, interpretation, and reporting conventions for somatic sequence variants.
Rapid advancements in the molecular diagnostic testing of lung cancer have led to new treatments and greater hope for patients battling lung cancer, the most common cause of cancer death worldwide.
AMP has published consensus, evidence-based recommendations to aid clinical laboratory professionals when designing and validating clinical CYP2C19 assays, promote standardization of testing across different laboratories and complement existing clinical guidelines.
AMP has published consensus, evidence-based recommendations to aid clinical laboratory professionals with the management of most Chronic Myeloid Neoplasms (CMNs) and development of high-throughput pan-myeloid sequencing testing panels.