Design and development of the molecular analysis for Therapy Choice (NCI-MATCH) Designated Laboratory Network.

3016 Background: NCI-MATCH is a precision medicine trial that assigns treatment to refractory cancer patients by tumor mutation profile rather than by histology. After screening fresh tumor biopsies from nearly 6000 patients many treatment arms did not meet accrual due to the low prevalence of the eligible variants. NCI MATCH developed an approach to identify patients for the remaining arms utilizing a network of academic and commercial...