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. 2021 Mar 11;2(4):100163. doi: 10.1016/j.jtocrr.2021.100163

Table 3.

Changes in Positive Rates of NSCLC in Selected Hospitals During 2010 to 2019 in Mainland People’s Republic of China

Driver Gene Sample Type Methods 2010 2011 Positive Rates of Driver Genes by Year
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
EGFR FFPE qPCR 39.0 39.1 38.7 40.4 40.6 43.5 44.5 43.7 43.3 44.1
NGS 36.3 39.7 42.7 44.6 41.9
Sanger sequencing 34.2 31.9
EGFR Blood Super-ARMS 22.9 23.8 22.4 23.5
NGS 21.7 22.0 21.4
ALK FFPE qRT-PCR 5.9 6.2 6.6 7.5 7.5 6.9 6.1 6.1
FISH 6.8 7.2 6.6 10.5 11.9 13.5 12.2 13.7 10.1 13.2
Vetana-D5F3 IHC 7.2 6.6 6.4 6.4 7.0 7.2 6.9
NGS 3.1 3.8 4.1 5.5 5.1
ROS1 FFPE qRT-PCR 1.6 1.7 1.3 1.4 1.8 1.6 1.8
FISH 4.2 3.5 4.3 4.2 4.6 4.1
NGS 1.4 1.4 1.5 1.2

Note: Values are given in %.

FFPE, formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded; FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization; IHC, immunohistochemistry; NGS, next-generation sequencing; qPCR, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction; qRT-PCR, quantitative reverse-transcript polymerase chain reaction; Super-AMRS, superamplification refractory mutation system.