Diagnostics working group
The projects designated as priorities for the diagnostics working group
include reducing time from first evaluation to diagnostic confirmation
and increasing access and timelines for leukemia and solid tumor
diagnostics. The first objective is to reduce the time from suspicion to
confirmation to 4 weeks in 70% of children by implementing an effective
referral system within a 24-month period, with a 2-month milestone of
defining the referral pathway to be implemented, and a 9-month milestone
of monitoring the number and percentage of patients in the pathway. The
second objective is to reduce to 2 weeks the time for reporting flow
cytometry or immunohistochemistry results in 70% of samples submitted
for analysis within a 24-month period, with a 10-month milestone of
evaluating percentage of samples reported timely.