New Working Group to Evaluate Clinical Utility of NGS-Based Testing to Inform Coverage After many years of steady development in DNA sequencing, the scientific community is reaching an exciting ...

A study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting found practice- and provider-level racial and ethnic inequities in rates of next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing for ...

Both the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing for cancer and the rate of claim denials for such testing increased between 2016 and 2021, despite implementation of a recent Medicare national ...

Investigators note that although the overall cost for implementing next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing would be more than implementing current polymerase chain reaction (PCR)–based testing, the ...

NORTHFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Precision medicine continues to gain momentum from the laboratory benchtop to the patient's bedside, with the CAP leading—as it has for over 10 years—in improving ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific TMO recently announced a collaboration with Pfizer to increase local access to next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based testing for lung and breast cancer patients. The ...

Study shows iMDx test equivalent to NGS kits for dd-cfDNA measurement in kidney transplant patients, supporting future commercialization efforts. Results from a head-to-head comparison show iMDx's ...

"Clinicians performing tumor biopsy need to ensure that there’s adequate tissue for both diagnosis and NGS testing. Having immediate pathology review of biopsy specimens in the operating room can ...

Increasing localized access can provide faster results for patients while potentially improving patient outcomes Agreement aims to enable greater access to localized advanced testing capabilities for ...