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CLL - Referral to CLL Specialist
Thank you for this resource. I have found substantial information about the treatment plans after diagnosis, criteria for diagnosis but not the protocol for referral...
Last active: Oct 13, 2019
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Leptomeningeal Disease and CLL
My father (80 years old) has been diagnosed with leptomeningeal disease which has a very poor outcome. He has been taking Acalabrutinib successfully for the...
Last active: Feb 23, 2021
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CLL and immunization experience
I am wondering what experience, if any, people with CLL have had after receiving HepA/Hep B, Tdap, pneumococcal immunization, and Shingrix immunization. I appreciate any...
Last active: Aug 21, 2024
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Bruising with CLL
Hello Everyone, About a month ago, I posted a few questions for my husband concerning his recent diagnosis of CLL. He is 72 years old....
Last active: Jul 15, 2024
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CLL, Spontaneous Regression
Diagnosed with CLL at age 50 from blood tests and bone marrow my disease progressed slowly for 10 years without treatment. After 10 years my...
Last active: May 4, 2024
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Can CLL be hereditary?
Is it possible there is a genetic component to this disease? In my family history, my grandmother, my aunt and my mother — and oddly...
Last active: Feb 26, 2020
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Hot Flashes with CLL
Wonder of this might help those of us dealing with chills and hot flashes due to our CLL. https://www.yahoo.com/news/experimental-pill-cut-hot-flashes-161925642.html
Last active: Aug 23, 2024
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Waldenstrom's, CLL or MGUS?
Hi--I was diagnosed with WM in the summer of 2023 by a hematologist. My PCP, however, thought it might be CLL. A second opinion (online)...
Last active: Nov 2, 2024
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CLL - newly diagnosed
My doctor discovered smudge cells as a pre-cursor to CLL in Dec. 2015. This spring of 2016, my lyphmocyte count put over the 5000 threshold...
Last active: Aug 2, 2024