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Blood, 1 July 2006, Vol. 108, No. 1, pp. 28-37.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on March 7, 2006; DOI 10.1182/blood-2006-01-0092.
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Submitted January 10, 2006
Accepted February 18, 2006
Monitoring CML patients responding to treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors - Review and recommendations for 'harmonizing' current methodology for detecting BCR-ABL transcripts and kinase domain mutations and for expressing results
Timothy P Hughes, Michael W Deininger, Andreas Hochhaus, Susan Branford, Jerald P Radich, Jaspal Kaeda, Michele Baccarani, Jorge Cortes, Nicholas C Cross, Brian J Druker, Jean Gabert, David Grimwade, Rudiger Hehlmann, Suzanne Kamel-Reid, Jeffrey H Lipton, Janina Longtine, Giovanni Martinelli, Giuseppe Saglio, Simona Soverini, Wendy Stock, and John M Goldman*
Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, Australia
Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute, Portland, OR, USA
Faculty of Clinical Medicine Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Imperial College at Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology 'Seragnoli', University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
National Genetics Reference Laboratory, University of Southampton, Salisbury, United Kingdom
APHM and ERT-MEIDIA, University de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College, London, United Kingdom
Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
University of Turin, Orbassano, Italy
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
* Corresponding author; email: goldmanj2{at}nhlbi.nih.gov.
The introduction in 1998 of imatinib mesylate (IM) revolutionized management of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and the second generation of tyrosine kinase inhibitors may prove superior to IM. Real time quantitative PCR (RQ-PCR) provides an accurate measure of the total leukemia cell mass and the degree to which BCR-ABL transcripts are reduced by therapy correlates with progression-free survival. Because a rising level of BCR-ABL is an early indication of loss of response and thus the need to reassess therapeutic strategy, regular molecular monitoring of individual patients is clearly desirable. Here we summarize the results of a consensus meeting that took place at the NIH in Bethesda in October 2005. We make suggestions for (1) harmonizing the differing methodologies for measuring BCR-ABL transcripts in CML patients undergoing treatment and using a conversion factor whereby individual laboratories can express BCR-ABL transcript levels on an internationally agreed scale, (2) using serial RQ-PCR results rather than bone marrow cytogenetics or FISH for the BCR-ABL gene to monitor individual patients responding to treatment, and (3) detecting and reporting Ph-positive sub-populations bearing BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations. We recognize that our recommendations are provisional and will require revision as new evidence emerges.

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M. Hertzberg and D. McDonald
Optimizing fusion transcript monitoring in CML
Blood,
March 1, 2007;
109(5):
2263 - 2263.
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T. Hughes, S. Branford, and J. M. Goldman
Response: Reliability of PCR for BCR-ABL transcripts
Blood,
March 1, 2007;
109(5):
2263 - 2264.
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S. Branford
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Molecular Monitoring in Clinical Practice
Hematology,
January 1, 2007;
2007(1):
376 - 383.
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P. Rousselot, F. Huguet, D. Rea, L. Legros, J. M. Cayuela, O. Maarek, O. Blanchet, G. Marit, E. Gluckman, J. Reiffers, et al.
Imatinib mesylate discontinuation in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia in complete molecular remission for more than 2 years
Blood,
January 1, 2007;
109(1):
58 - 60.
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H. A. Bradeen, C. A. Eide, T. O'Hare, K. J. Johnson, S. G. Willis, F. Y. Lee, B. J. Druker, and M. W. Deininger
Comparison of imatinib mesylate, dasatinib (BMS-354825), and nilotinib (AMN107) in an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU)-based mutagenesis screen: high efficacy of drug combinations
Blood,
October 1, 2006;
108(7):
2332 - 2338.
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S. K. Kathula, S.-C. Chu, J.-L. Tang, C.-C. Li, C. L. Sawyers, M. Talpaz, and E. Bleickardt
Dasatinib in chronic myelogenous leukemia.
N. Engl. J. Med.,
September 7, 2006;
355(10):
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T. Hughes
ABL Kinase Inhibitor Therapy for CML: Baseline Assessments and Response Monitoring
Hematology,
January 1, 2006;
2006(1):
211 - 218.
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M. J. Mauro
Defining and Managing Imatinib Resistance
Hematology,
January 1, 2006;
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219 - 225.
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J. F. Apperley
Managing the Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Through and After Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation
Hematology,
January 1, 2006;
2006(1):
226 - 232.
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