Hematology
Welcome to your home for all things Mayo Clinic Hematology. At Mayo Clinic, hematologists work in collaboration with teams of experts from virtually every medical and surgical specialty for the care of adults and children with blood diseases, including various cancers of the blood and bone marrow.
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CLL: Mayo Clinic's approach to diagnosis
Approximately 20,000 patients will be diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in the United States alone in 2019. Many of these patients will be in the early-stage of their disease at the time of their diagnosis and will not meet indications for therapy (learn more about this period known as watch & wait).
It is now possible for Mayo Clinic hematologists to identify several prognostic markers to individually predict which patients are at a higher risk of progression. Learn more about the five variables providers use to determine who is at a higher risk in Dr. Parikh's video below: