Just to add to Trey's excellent summary, the average age of diagnosis for CLL is close to 70 years old. As Trey noted, sometimes its aggressive and other times its very slow growing.
Depending on the age of the person, the therapy can vary. If prognostic factors are good and age is high, the Oncologist may elect to merely observe the disease with no treatment. In these cases, its usually not the CLL that causes the person's death more than 10 years later, just natural causes. For younger people or those with the more aggressive form, the standard treatment is Fludarabine and Cytoxan with maybe some Rituxan (anti-CD20 antibody) added. Pretty effective at inducing a response but as Trey noted, basically never curative. There were some new agents mentioned at the last ASH meeting that seem promising for CLL. On Feb 12, 7:00 pm, Suzieq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trey: > > Thank you so very much for explaining all of this. > > Love, Suzie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
