Autophagy plays an important role in the occurrence,progression and treatment of cancer,neurodegenerative,autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.Recent years,autophagy has become a new hot spot in tumor area.Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a common hematopoietic malignancy;while autophagy is involved in its development,as well as targeting drug tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance mechanisms,regulating autophagy provide a new direction for the treatment of CML.The intensive study of the relation between cell autophagy and cancer will help to overcome cancer.This article offers an up-to-date comprehensive review of autophagy and CML.