Trey' Thank you. Now have an appointment with my Onc on Oct 10 Halff
--- On Mon, 10/27/08, Trey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Trey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CMLHope] Re: How meaningful is this PCR increace To: "CMLHope" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, October 27, 2008, 9:58 PM I see from a previous posting that you were 36/1000 in Nov 2004, and then you went to 3.4/1000, and now are back to 25/1000. Most Oncs will give the PCR results as a percentage, and I can't be sure about converting your result to a percentage, but your current result is probably 2.5% -- ask your Onc about that. Whatever the answer, you have increased approx 1 log from your best PCR result, and your past two PCRs have increased. Many Oncs would look at that as worthy of investigating. I would talk to the Onc about: 1) having a Kinase Domain Mutation test done to check for drug resistance (see link below for one lab's explanation of the test) http://www.aruplab.com/TestDirectory/resources_testDirectory/TechnicalBulletins/BCR-ABL1%20Kinase%20Domain%20Mutation%20Jan%202007.pdf 2) depending on what the drug resistance test shows, possibly increasing dosage or switching to another drug --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
