A Physician Strongly Suspects CML in a Patient and Has

question 40

Multiple Choice

A physician strongly suspects CML in a patient and has already ordered a bone marrow differential and cytogenetic analysis for the Philadelphia chromosome. What other test would help confirm the CML picture for this patient?

• A) Molecular assay for JAK2 kinase
• B) Immunophenotyping with flow cytometry
• C) Molecular assay for BCR/ABL1
• D) PAS stain

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