RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 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 JF Cancer Biology and Medicine JO Cancer Biol Med FD China Anti-Cancer Association SP 189 OP 204 DO 10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2018.0142 VO 16 IS 1 A1 Xuchao Zhang A1 Zhiyong Liang A1 Shengyue Wang A1 Shun Lu A1 Yong Song A1 Ying Cheng A1 Jianming Ying A1 Weiping Liu A1 Yingyong Hou A1 Yangqiu Li A1 Yi Liu A1 Jun Hou A1 Xiufeng Liu A1 Jianyong Shao A1 Yanhong Tai A1 Zheng Wang A1 Li Fu A1 Hui Li A1 Xiaojun Zhou A1 Hua Bai A1 Mengzhao Wang A1 You Lu A1 Jinji Yang A1 Wenzhao Zhong A1 Qing Zhou A1 Xuening Yang A1 Jie Wang A1 Cheng Huang A1 Xiaoqing Liu A1 Xiaoyan Zhou A1 Shirong Zhang A1 Hongxia Tian A1 Yu Chen A1 Ruibao Ren A1 Ning Liao A1 Chunyan Wu A1 Zhongzheng Zhu A1 Hongming Pan A1 Yanhong Gu A1 Liwei Wang A1 Yunpeng Liu A1 Suzhan Zhang A1 Tianshu Liu A1 Gong Chen A1 Zhimin Shao A1 Binghe Xu A1 Qingyuan Zhang A1 Ruihua Xu A1 Lin Shen A1 Yilong Wu A1 On behalf of Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) Tumor Biomarker Committee YR 2019 UL http://www.cancerbiomed.org/content/16/1/189.abstract AB 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.