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Receiving a cancer diagnosis is a challenging and emotional experience that can trigger a range of emotions including sadness, anxiousness, & worry.
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is a challenging and emotional experience that can trigger a range of emotions including sadness, anxiousness, worry, anger, disbelief, denial, and confusion.
Please enjoy this very personal but also universal description of what it is like emotionally to deal with chronic lymphocytic leukemia as a patient and a caregiver.
The concept of just watching and waiting until ‘the enemy was ready to slay me’, then ‘go to war’, seemed a little antiquated.
Two years into the pandemic, CLL caregivers continued to cope with distress, live in isolation, and lose in-person care opportunities. They experienced increasing caregiving burden, shock, and devastation when a vaccine did not work for their loved one with CLL.
Ask the Pharmacist Question: I am presently using imbruvica for CLL and have had great success in my blood counts. I am experiencing very minor side-effects that have been very tolerable. However, I
Dr. Koffman offers his best tips for managing the psychological impact of CLL.
Dr. Koffman was interviewed by Prevention magazine to share some of his emotional experiences when he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2005 and what he learned that helped him cope, primarily through the early part of his journey when he was asked to “Watch and Wait.” The article also includes helpful information from an oncologist that treats CLL and links to an insightful Emotional Impact Report and other resources.
People with CLL and SLL are at higher risk of developing infections due to having weakened immune systems.
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