Immunophenotyping in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Blast Crisis: Looking beyond Morphology

Abstract

Introduction: Patients of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) eventually transform to blast crisis (BC) after a variable length of chronic phase (CP). With improvement in management protocols, many patients of CML-BC are expected to show remission after initial chemotherapy and a better survival. Hence, it becomes imperative to correctly classify the nature of BC for further course of management.