«And more importantly, we found that if a patient achieves a complete
cytogenetic response, the risk of relapse is the same whether the patient was at low, medium, or high risk when diagnosed,» said Druker.
A cytogenetic response is the measure of the reversion of white blood cells to normal function.
«Even high - risk patients have close to a 70 percent chance of getting to what we call a complete
cytogenetic response, which is an optimal response to the drug,» said Druker.
Not exact matches
A large variety of methods is used including genetic, molecular and
cytogenetic techniques, fluorescence in situ hybridisation and DNA «combing», as well as high throughput sequencing approaches such as DNA - seq for mutation landscape analyses, RNA - seq for transcriptome analyses and ChIP - seq mapping of chromatin - associated proteins and their genome - wide modulation in
response to DNA damages.