Learn to Read Your Lab Results: CML Tests

" Your doctor will follow your progress in fighting the -- repeat blood has. Some of these tests will be familiar like the -- from your routine physical exam. But some of the has important cracking the -- are -- special. One set of those tests are used to look at specifically for the abnormal white blood cells that are current Immelt. There are three basic types of these tests. -- A fluorescent in like two hybridization. Which we call. And something called it polymerase chain reaction to. Or ER. Doctor sometimes refer to it as a molecular. In -- genetic testing it technicians will prepare a sample of twenty white blood cells. At a particular date of their life cycle in which chromosomes are visible under the -- got. The technicians then count how many of those when he tells shall chromosomal abnormality. That characterized as EML if they -- more sensitive. It's much more subtle indicators. Instead of looking at twenty cells with -- at the last couple hundred points out sales for the Seattle abnormality. The test result are usually center that describe the result. Like number of cells analyzed 500. Per cent to abnormal cells to spot that present a totally abnormal cells 97 point 5%. With a number you'd enter here is two point five -- The most sensitive tests for. ML. I can spot one abnormal you know sell among the million normal white blood cell. Doctors hoped that following treatment -- sensitive as I'm no abnormal white blood cells. That leads to a lab reports of negative."