Thanks for your response Malcolm! I wonder why they would give me this test before treatment? and congratheft getting to the finish line!
mallani said
Feb 9, 2013
Hi Caryn,
Labcorp have made this available and LanaiSurferGirl did a post about it some time back.
Basicly it is an assay to check mutations at the NS3/NS4a viral site. At the moment it only measures mutations against Victrelis and Incivek.
RAM's are Resistance Altered Mutations, and your test shows you do not have any, and that you are sensitive to both Victrelis and Incivek.
This will be the case for all patients unless they have had Rx with Victrelis or Incivek, so I'm not sure how useful it is. Cheers.
Caryn said
Feb 9, 2013
Has anyone had one of these done? Here is a short summary of my results. If anyone can explain, that would be great. This was a test done before I started treatment, but just posted to the labcorp website.
Thanks for your response Malcolm! I wonder why they would give me this test before treatment? and congratheft getting to the finish line!
Hi Caryn,
Labcorp have made this available and LanaiSurferGirl did a post about it some time back.
Basicly it is an assay to check mutations at the NS3/NS4a viral site. At the moment it only measures mutations against Victrelis and Incivek.
RAM's are Resistance Altered Mutations, and your test shows you do not have any, and that you are sensitive to both Victrelis and Incivek.
This will be the case for all patients unless they have had Rx with Victrelis or Incivek, so I'm not sure how useful it is. Cheers.
Has anyone had one of these done? Here is a short summary of my results. If anyone can explain, that would be great. This was a test done before I started treatment, but just posted to the labcorp website.
PI Boceprevir Victrelis SensitiveNS3 RAMs*: NoneNS4A RAMs*: None Telaprevir Incivek SensitiveNS3 RAMs*: None NS4A RAMs*: None