Although it is treatable, it’s not considered to be curable. In the early stages, CLL often doesn't require treatment immediately, as studies have shown that early treatment doesn’t increase ...
But when CLL crowds out the healthy cells in your bone marrow and you get symptoms, you may need treatment. That’s what happened to Larry Saltzman, MD, a retired family doctor in Sacramento ...
Cardiovascular management strategies are essential to individuals with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or multiple myeloma (MM) undergoing active treatment, due to the high rate of atrial ...
Treatment for CLL continues to change. Doctors are using newer targeted cancer drugs. This means a stem cell transplant is now a less common treatment for CLL. You have a transplant using donor cells ...
There’s potentially good news for people suffering from relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). A new study out from an Oregon hospital shows that combining an oral tablet called idelalisib (also ...
This represents a challenging duty for physicians treating CLL patients in the day-to-day practice. What is clear is that any method of measuring fitness in CLL patients must be simple and easy to ...