Guest guest Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Hi I have not posted here for a good while now - it seemed as if life moved on more gently than the first two years of 's diagnosis. But this PCR result is so much better than has had before and I wanted to share the good news. We order the PCR kit from OHSU, has his blood drawn locally and then sent back to OHSU overnight... The OHSU results come in two formats and here they are: BCR-ABL/G6PDH RNA ratio : 0.0087% BCR-ABL RNA (International scale) : 0.020% The results read: The international scale(IS) defines a BCR-ABL RNA level of 0.1% as being equivalent to a 3.0 log reduction from a standardized median pre-treatment baseline value. This 0.1% international scale level is, by definition, a 'major molecular response " (MMR) as established in the IRIS study. had been hovering around the 0.19% (IS) mark for a good many PCR's and now this jump downwards almost at his 4 year anniversary. This is great news, but we are aware that another two PCR results of this type is needed before we really break out the party I think I am right in reading this as a 4 log reduction? Anyway - I wanted to share with all of you and hope that the newbies see that sometimes it can take a while to get down to really low pcr counts, but it can happen love and light Annie 's mom http://livingwithcml.blogspot.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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