Cll immunophenotyping results

Hi Team

I just have been diagnosed with CLL and I am on watch and wait. As I have a private insurance I used NHS and private parallel and had two -NHS and private- immunophenotypings done within the same week. Both results for a variety of CD markers vary by about  100%. Both tests are done at the hospital. Could you give advice why that could be?

  • Hello and thanks for your enquiry,

    Just to say we are a nurse led service so can't give a medical response as such. It is likely that perhaps different pathology laboratories may have been used to process each sample.

    I don't know, but it might explain the different reference parameters. You would have to ask the doctor or nurse at the Royal Marsden Hospital about this one.

    I am sorry that we couldn't be more specific on this occasion,

    Wishing you the best,

    Vanda