Table 3. Differences in achievement of MR4 in paired BM and PB samples of 134 CML patients in long-term follow-up.
| ≥12 months | ≥MR4 | PB |
Total, n | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No, n | Yes, n | |||
| BM | No, n | 164 (50.9%) | 11 (3.4%) | 175 (54.3%) |
| Yes, n | 35 (10.9%) | 112 (34.8%) | 147 (45.7%) | |
| p = 0.0007 | Total, n | 199 (61.8%) | 123 (38.2%) | 322 (100%) |
Contingency table with McNemar test of samples from patients undergoing TKI treatment for ≥12 months. BM, bone marrow; CML, chronic myeloid leukemia; PB, peripheral blood.