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BCR-ABL lab results after recovering from pneumonia

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Hi guys,

Just wanted peoples experiences & opinions on whether my most recent lab results should be a cause for concern.

Quick backstory: I went abroad back in early August, and then suddenly caught a respiratory infection (ironically not Covid). As a precaution, my oncologist told me to cut down my dasatinib amount from 100mg to 50 mg. After recovering around early September, I went in the following month for my 3-month BCR-ABL test. The results came out today saying that it was detected at a 0.004%, which I think just misses Log 4.5 mark?

My past results have been fairly consistent:

July '22 - 0.00088

April '22 - 0.0002

Feb '22 - 0.00022

Nov '21 - 0.00031

Aug '21 - 0.0029

I was wondering if anyone has had an experience similar to this, and wouldn't mind sharing their thoughts on it?

Cheers!

Anything under MMR4 I am told is just noise of the test and a lot of bouncing can occur because of the lower level disease and the sensitivity of the test. They’re all effectively the same result but understand how we all including me over emphasise any “climb” on paper.

Absolutely zero to worry about at that level. Some don’t make MMR3 for years and decades are still doing just fine. I dare say your next result will be lower.

Hope that helps.

Alex

That's a relief to hear. I have my blood test next week with my follow up the week after, so if I can maintain 50mg/day, I think that'd be a great thing. Granted I was lucky enough to not show any adverse side effects when I started on 100mg.

Thanks again.

Update about my results:

BCR-ABL was not detected at a detection limit of 0.00017%(IS)

Looking through the forum, ‘not detected’ results seem to weird people out a bit.

Does anyone know if this means I’ll most likely have to run another blood test to get another set of results?