The ongoing presence of the Ph chromosome in ALL patients after consolidation therapy is a significant predictor of relapse, and monitoring is recommended. Established international organizations recommend definitive timepoints for monitoring BCR-ABL p190 in ALL and CML patients.
7-10 Unlike the BCR-ABL World Health Organization international standard (WHO IS) for the p210 transcript, currently, there are no international standards that can be used to standardize the p190 fusion transcript Current testing options for BCR-ABL p190 monitoring for both CML and ALL patients are not only cumbersome, but can be expensive and time consuming for the lab to implement because:
- Available testing methods can be complex and create inefficient laboratory workflows.
- No international scale has been established for p190 monitoring, so laboratories are dependent on ratios and must run laborious standard curves.
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