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Are MRD tests and detection thresholds standardized across labs or is it important to complete MRD testing with the same lab each time?

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HealthTree

• August 9, 2025

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Learn about MRD tests should be done in the same labs or it's okay across the labs in this HealthTree University lesson by a cancer specialist.

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Nicholas Short, Specialist

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Transcript

Is MRD testing standardized across all labs?

So is MRD testing standardized? And that's a good question. So not necessarily. Generally speaking, depending on where you have your MRD tested, there might be a slightly different platform that's used to do that. And so it's very difficult to compare MRD values across different institutions, across different laboratories. So in general, I recommend that once a specific MRD test is chosen for a specific patient and their type of leukemia, the same test is used over the course of therapy to give more accurate comparisons of their results.

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