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Lab Demographics

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* 1. Which of the following best describes your laboratory demographics?

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* 2. In which country is your laboratory located?

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* 3. What is the typical number of patient samples that your laboratory services for all molecular diagnostics assays per week?

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* 4. Is testing for patient care or research?

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* 5. For which cancer types does your laboratory conduct ctDNA analysis?

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* 6. Which genes and mutations does your laboratory measure as ctDNA?

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* 7. Which genes and mutations does your laboratory measure as ctDNA in panel diagnostics?

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* 8. How is ctDNA testing utilized at your institution?

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* 9. What criteria are used for selecting patients for ctDNA testing? (select all that apply)

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* 10. Is ctDNA testing restricted to specific patients based on cancer stage or metastasis?

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* 11. What frequency is ctDNA measured for your patients

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* 12. What type of blood collection tubes are you using?

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* 13. What criteria are used to reject a specimen that is collected for analysis?

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* 14. How do you store the specimen prior to analysis?

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* 15. What method is predominately used in your laboratory to analyse ctDNA?

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* 16. Does your method of ctDNA analysis require extraction?

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* 17. What volume of specimen do you routinely extract?

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* 18. Do you conduct pre-amplifications for any of your methods?

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* 19. Do you monitor for genomic contamination?

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* 20. What amount of isolated cfDNA is used for analysis?

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* 21. What specimen types does your laboratory use for ctDNA testing?

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* 22. In what units are your ctDNA results reported?

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* 23. Are LOB (Limit of Blank), LOD (Limit of Detection) and LOQ (Limit of Quantification) determined for the methods used?

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* 24. When the limit of blank (LOB) is determined, is this done specifically for the individual loci or is a general value used for all target genes ?

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* 25. Is the method-specific LOD (limit of detection) indicated when reporting the patient result?

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* 26. What is your typical turn-around time for ct-DNA analysis?

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* 27. Do you conduct quality control of the extraction procedure?

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* 28. Certified reference materials (CRM) are defined as “sufficiently homogenous and stable with respect to one or more specified properties (qualitative or quantitative) which have been established to be fit for its intended use in a measurement process.” A CRM is distinguished and identified by a certificate that demonstrates not only the metrological traceability but also the uncertainty value of each property.

What methods do you apply for quality control of the extraction procedure?

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* 29. What approaches do you apply for quality control of the analytical workflow? (select all that apply)

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* 30. What source do you use for quality control?

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* 31. Do you perform external quality assessments of your ctDNA methods?

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* 32. What resources are needed to advance the quality and standardization of ctDNA testing

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* 33. Comments, opinions, recommendations, questions – please specify

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