The high-throughput and increasingly affordable nature of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has led to its expanded use in routine clinical procedures. The relative simplicity of targeted enrichment cancer panels (available from a number of commercial providers) allows routine laboratories to simultaneously analyze the coding (exonic) regions of multiple cancer-related key genes. Combine this with the statistic diagnostic testing now influencing over 70 percent of all health care decisions1, the setting up or transitioning to NGS-based oncology panels for labs has never been more important.
