Nancy, Thanks for the information. Using my calculation for a person with a white count of 500,000 would put the leukemic load at a half trillion cells. So, the two numbers (mine and Dr. Drucker's) are within one order of magnitude of one another. And that may be as good as we can do.
Phil Manning http://www.scibooks.org --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "hey00nanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "pvmanning2003" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If that person's cytogenetics and FISH indicated > > nearly 100 percent of those cells were phillies, then that person > > would have leukemic load of about 100 billion cells. Richard and > > Cheryl-Anne, I may be overlooking something here, so please > > correct me if I am wrong. > > > > Phil Manning > > Chapel Hill, NC > > http://www.scibooks.org > > _________________ > > Hi Phil and others, > I don't know the math but I do have Dr. D's graphs right in front of > me (and no way to scan them). Also this might be repeated information. > > It says: > If you had a white blood count of 500,000........you would have one > trillion leukemia cells. > > And on the PCR graph..... > if you become PCR undetectable, you still hae one million leukemia > cells. > > Nancy C. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/8zSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New! Sign up for local CML support group meetings in your local community at http://cml.meetup.com Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Support List) --------------------------------- Part Of CMLHope.Com An International Community Of CML Patients For more information: http://cmlhope.com Post Message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To No Mail/Web: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CML Group Web Site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
