Hello @linepa2002 Welcome to Connect. I’m happy to see you’ve already discovered some helpful posts with the diagnosis with your CLL. It’s generally a slow to develop blood cancer and medications can help to slow the progress.

Here’s a little information about Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.

Looks like, also tossed in with the CLL, is a condition referred to as MGUS, Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. That’s mouthful! Instead of me trying to explain this condition, I’ve found a couple of good articles that will give you a little more information:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/mgus/symptoms-causes/syc-20352362
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https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/monoclonal-gammopathies

Both of those conditions are often found randomly after routine bloodwork. You mentioned so many members were suspected of CLL after a mammogram. The mammogram didn’t cause the CLL to happen. It’s common for women with CLL to have lumps in their breasts investigated after a mammogram. Another random discovery…

Were you experiencing symptoms before you were diagnosed or was this found with a routine physical?

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