Hi Andrea,
Are you missing some of your report here? The cytogenetic report that you mention doesn't give much detail. Usually they mark how many cells were looked at and how many were normal or how many had the philadelphia chromosome. If there were other clonal evolutions it would also be marked in the cytogenetic report. All this report says is that you're female, which I guess you already knew :) and that you have the normal number of chromosomes (46). The rest is the PCR report which basically says that from September to November there wasn't much difference. I wouldn't be worried about this though because two months is not a lot of time to see a big difference in PCR numbers. We've seen from people on the list that the PCR numbers continue to go down even after several years of treatment. You probably know that the holy grail of PCR response is a 3 log reduction. You have already achived a 2.1 log reduction which is great so in the months to come they will want to see if you continue to go down to finally achive the 3 logs. I can't remember how long you've been on Gleevec but all in all, it looks like you're responding nicely. Take care, Tracey 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/
