Schematic representation of decreasing residual disease related to numbers of BCR-ABL transcripts in the peripheral blood (left scale) and estimated number of residual leukemia cells in a patient’s body (right scale).
Abbreviations: CCyR, complete cytogenetic response; MMR, major molecular response; RQ-PCR, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction.
From Goldman JM. How I treat chronic myeloid leukemia in the imatinib era. Blood 2007;110:2831. Reproduced with permission of the American Society of Hematology.