Guest guest Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Congrats Pat...........you are a big ZERO now on FISH. Zavie will be giving you a number and you can celebrate! C. At 08:40 PM 8/19/05 +0000, you wrote: >Hello Everyone, >Been following everyones post and its keeping me very busy. I got my >fish results after 6 months of 400mg of gleevac and it was negative >for detection of bcr/abl. My ANC is 2.875. So I am very happy with >my results. The next visit is in 3 months for the PCR test. Things >are moving along yet I have had some weight gain so starting to get >with the program before I hit my 43 birthday in November. Getting >ready for school for the kids and running my business is keeping me >occupied so I don't get into a depression. Want to Thank You all for >the knowlege of this disease (my onc was impressed) and help you have >all given me. >ThanK You, >Dr. Pat >Dx 3/05 >400 mg > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 At 05:05 PM 10/25/05 +0000, you wrote: >Hello everyone. Question for you!! > >I had a FISH on the 14th of October and am still waiting for the >results. When I call for the results, what kind of questions do I need >to ask? I am so new to this. When I had my first one done, the dr. >just said that I had 86% leukemia cells show up and then a month later >when they did one, it was 63%. I didn't know what to ask then, so I >want to get the right information this time. > >Thanks, B Hi , With FISH you basically just get a % or ph+ cells.... you could ask how many cells were tested, this is usually 200 but sometimes is more. So, if you had 100/200 ph+ cells you would be 50% ph+. C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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