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Lani · 01-03-2013, 12:22 AM

Steph the testing for leukemias and lymphomas is straight forward and has been done for decades--as the normal home for the cells which make blood cells of all types is the bone marrow in the first place

They have worked out what the cells should look like, what IHC markers they should have and other testing

This has only been worked out and been done routinely in Germany and the phenotyping of the cells is being done by various methods in the US, where they are rarely looked at.

I do hope Dr Love changes her mine...if so, it was unfortunate she had to go through it herself to be convinced (ie that bone marrow testing is not so bad and it should certainly be done more often to determine if it can be used reliably to predict who needs more treatment and which treatment.

01-03-2013, 12:22 AM	#6
Lani Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,780	Re: Circulating tumor cells test by Veridex gets a CPT code from Medicare! Steph the testing for leukemias and lymphomas is straight forward and has been done for decades--as the normal home for the cells which make blood cells of all types is the bone marrow in the first place They have worked out what the cells should look like, what IHC markers they should have and other testing This has only been worked out and been done routinely in Germany and the phenotyping of the cells is being done by various methods in the US, where they are rarely looked at. I do hope Dr Love changes her mine...if so, it was unfortunate she had to go through it herself to be convinced (ie that bone marrow testing is not so bad and it should certainly be done more often to determine if it can be used reliably to predict who needs more treatment and which treatment.