CLL patients face a higher risk of infection, but with planning and care, risks can be reduced. By following best practices and informed choices, CLL patients can attend and enjoy in-person meetings.
Regardless of their treatment status, all chronic lymphocytic leukemia/ small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL / SLL) are immunocompromised.
CLL Advocates Network (CLLAN) convened an international group of patients and experts, including CLL Society’s Dr. Koffman, to develop practical recommendations for CLL / SLL patients, allowing patients to feel safer about being in public spaces.
The risk one is willing to take to attend a particular event will always be an individual decision based on treatment and disease status, co-morbidities, personal risk tolerance, details about the venue, the importance of the event, and other personal factors.
CLL Society, working with CLLAN, offers this not as medical advice, but guidance to help make a safer place for the Immunocompromised.
To read the whole document, click on: Good-Practice Guidelines for holding a Face-to-Face event – CLL Advocates Network.
