Moreover, in CP patients Sokal's risk influences significantly the probability of obtaining a MCgR after aIfaIFN . As far as survival, after aIFN even in CCgR patients, the long term survival is signifcantly influenced by risk. The European investigators on Interferon in CML (EICML) collected informations on response and survival on 317 complete cytogenetic responders to IFN. The 10 years survival of the whole patients population was 75% but, after stratification by risk, a significant difference in 10 years survival rates was found in favour of low risk patients (89%) if compared with intermediate risk (70%) and high risk patients (54%) (low vs high risk p 0.0001; intermediate vs high p 0.003, log-rank test).