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. 2016 Jul 22;4:14. doi: 10.1186/s40364-016-0069-0

Table 1.

Clinical course

Day of TKI treatment Clinical event qPCR BCR/ABL, Blood (IS units) qPCR BCR/ABL, Marrow (IS units) T lymphoblasts, Marrow
−1 CML diagnosis confirmed 44 % 9 %
1 Started imatinib 500 mg daily
22 58 %
25 65 % 1 %
29 69 %
34 50 %
41 67 %
49 Started dasatinib 100 mg daily 56 %
54 52 % 52 % 0.02 %
64 28 %
68 22 %
92 4.3 %

Timeline of clinical events, BCR-ABL1 transcript levels detected by qPCR in the blood and bone marrow, and percentage of T lymphoblasts in the bone marrow as measured by flow cytometry. Timeline is reported relative to day 1 of treatment with imatinib. TKI tyrosine kinase inhibitor, qPCR quantitative polymerase chain reaction, IS international standard units