Table 4 Roles and responsibilities of personnel throughout the molecular testing pathway

Pathway of molecular pathology

Responsibility

Quality Assurance

Biopsy request

Referring physician

Proper sample collection

Radiologist, surgeon, endoscopist, pathologist

Sample handling and transport to the lab

Operating room staff/multidisciplinary team

Specimen processing in pathology lab

Pathology lab multidisciplinary team

Original diagnostic report

Pathologist

Requisition form for molecular test and indication

Oncologist

Sample preparation and processing

Molecular pathology multidisciplinary staff

Comprehensive molecular report

Molecular pathologist

Discussion with molecular tumor board

Multidisciplinary team