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

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.