Hey! I was really shocked to hear this news. Though I don't know Li Lei very wll, I give my best wished to him. Hope he will get well soon.
I'm now in Oxford, U. K.. I found some information about the medicines that are used as treatments for Leukemia here in UK. Hope it will be helpful.
1. Gleevec. which inhibits an enzyme that pushes cells to reproduce uncontrollably. The drug, which gained U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in 2001, has been stunningly successful in treating people with chronic myeloid leukemia, often returning patients' blood cell counts to near normal within three or four weeks.
2. clofarabine, a drug that disrupts DNA replication in cancer cells. The drug has been found in clinical trials to put about one-quarter of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients into remission when other treatments have failed, some researchers said.
3. FLT-3 inhibitors, which is still under clinical trials, experiments showed that about one-quarter of patients with acute myeloid leukemia respond to the drugs, but those who do respond show an 80 percent to 90 percent reduction of cancer cells in the blood.
4. ABL-kinase inhibitor, which is also being tested.
I think Gleevec and clofarabine are out for treatment now. I'm sorry that I'm not majoring in medicine, and I don't know their Chinese names, maybe you can check it.
