Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia: Approaches to Pharmacological Resistance

Abstract

From 2000 some data relative to IM resistance were available. There are many mechanisms responsible of IM resistance, more often point mutations that cause the progression to blast crisis and death in few months. To circumvent them, more potent TKIs have been subsequently approved [3]. However, another problem arise: these compounds don’t work on all patients because of the different IMresistant mutants of BCR-ABL[4].