Five-year relative survival rates of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients have increased from 23, for those diagnosed during 1980–1986, to 80% for those diagnosed between 2001 and 2008.1 This reflects the major advances made in the treatment of this disease due to the advent of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), with imatinib being the first TKI approved for the treatment of CML patients.2 The number of people living with this disease has doubled since 2001, and this trend is expected to continue. The prevalence of CML in 20 years might become 1 in 1000 inhabitants in countries using TKI for all new patients.3
Although recent data indicates that survival of CML patients, who are in complete cytogenetic response (CCyR) with imatinib therapy, is not statistically significantly different from that of the general population,4 health-related quality of life (HRQOL) differences do exist.5 Also, the proportion of patients reporting
Five-year relative survival rates of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients have increased from 23, for those diagnosed during 1980–1986, to 80% for those diagnosed between 2001 and 2008.1 This reflects the major advances made in the treatment of this disease due to the advent of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), with imatinib being the first TKI approved for the treatment of CML patients.2 The number of people living with this disease has doubled since 2001, and this trend is expected to continue. The prevalence of CML in 20 years might become 1 in 1000 inhabitants in countries using TKI for all new patients.3Although recent data indicates that survival of CML patients, who are in complete cytogenetic response (CCyR) with imatinib therapy, is not statistically significantly different from that of the general population,4 health-related quality of life (HRQOL) differences do exist.5 Also, the proportion of patients reporting
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