My husband was diagnosed 20 years ago when he had blood work done for a simple cosmetic procedure on his face. To date he has had no treatment. He has blood work done every 4 months. His white count goes up and down but has never reached a level where intervention was required.
In 2014 he survived a very serious case of sepsis. The oncologist was amazed that at age, 73, and even with CLL, his immune system responded quite well to the infection. He’s still kickin it at age 82.