My relative has chronic myeloid leukemia and is taking Gleevec. How long can they live? How long can you live?

Gleevec is a targeted drug for the treatment of CML, but it is expensive and cannot be stopped after taking it. To sum up, Gleevec is not effective for life, and it mainly targets at the gene that CML turns negative (BCR/ABL), but the conclusion is that after taking it for 3 years, some patients will turn negative again, and the drug will basically fail, and patients will have an accelerated period or a mutation period of the disease. (Some patients don't have this condition and can live for about 10 years. )

Comprehensive treatment is recommended for patients with economic conditions. Gleevec plus traditional Chinese medicine is the best for patients to recover, and the probability of gene turning positive again is very low. If there is no economic condition, you can simply choose the treatment of "detoxification and elimination of evil" in traditional Chinese medicine. These patients can also be genetically negative after long-term oral administration, and many of them can survive for more than 10 years.