FISH

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In reply to the post that stated " no one is doing FISH anymore " :

I go to MSKCC every three months. They do a FISH and PCR by peripheral

blood each time. I am on Tasigna, but it's standard no matter which drug you

take.

in NY

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> In reply to the post that stated " no one is doing FISH anymore " :

> I go to MSKCC every three months. They do a FISH and PCR by peripheral

> blood each time. I am on Tasigna, but it's standard no matter which drug you

> take.

> in NY

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Hi ,

I wrote that. I think it is very unusual for anyone to be doing FISH

anymore.....(I guess I meant Dr. Druker and crew, Dr. Talpaz and I don't know if

we hear about FISH from MDACC still?).

I especially asked " what was the point of doing a FISH test on someone who is

PCRU???? " ( A.) If you are negative on a test looking at 100,000

cells....why would you expect to find any positive cells when you only test 200

cells. The result that you get is actually most likely showing you the false

positive rate of your test.

I would really be curious about why MSKCC is doing this test if you would not

mind asking them? Maybe they are doing it because they have always done it and

are keeping their patient records standardized?

I know that OHSU feels there is no reason to do this test once you are CCR (zero

on bmb), and I am not sure they even do it at all anymore.

In the interest of trying to keep health care affordable (I guess we already

missed that mark) I am really against doing any unnecessary tests

myself......why run up charges for a test that does not give you any additional

information (?? maybe they are picking up or checking for other chromosomal

changes with this test?). It would be interesting to have you ask.

C.

treated at OHSU/Dr. Druker