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• iwCLL 2013: Dr. Tom Kipps Discusses the Changing Role of Chemo-immunotherapy in...

  

  Dr. Tom Kipps is my personal CLL physician and was announced the winner of the prestigious Binet-Rai award for his contribution to CLL research at the iwCLL 201... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• ASH 2013: A Quick Perspective

  

  After five frantic days of attending very detailed and jargon filled lectures full of the latest CLL news, reading hundreds of complex poster abstracts and... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• iwCLL 2013: Dr. Byrd Discusses 17 p Deletion with Ibutinib

  I need to keep this brief. I am exhausted.As my flight was canceled, I ended up on a red eye to Baton Rouge, then took a shuttle to NOLA.Didn't even get to slee... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• ASH 2013: The Joys of Travel

  What else could go wrong? Horrible respiratory infection (getting better), cracked computer screen (replaced), broken eyeglasses with a missing lens (found and... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• iwCLL 2013: Dr. John Byrd Discusses the Role of Novel Therapies Versus Standard...

  In the first part of my interview from iwCLL 2013 in Cologne, Germany, my doctor for my ibrutinib trial out of Ohio State (OSU) gives us his take on two of the... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• iwCLL 2013: Dr. Jeff Sharman Discusses Richter's Transformation in CLL

  In the final segment of my interview with Dr. Jeff Sharman discusses the dreaded complication of Richter's Transformation.First he explains exactly what we are... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• iwCLL 2013: Dr. Jeff Sharman Discusses Two Issues: 17p Deletion and Residual...

  In Part 6 of my iwCLL 2013 interview with Dr. Sharman who has a lot of experience with several of the promising new CLL agents, we look at some more unknowns. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• We Are All Fragile

  

  Sunset at Newport Beach, Nov. 30, 2013We are all fragile.Just some of it know it far better than others.We know it when we look in the mirror. Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• iwCLL 2013: Dr. Jeff Sharman Outlines Options If You Need Treatment NOW

  In Part 5 of my interview from iwCLL 2013, Dr. Jeff Sharman outlines what factors go into deciding how to manage our disease NOW with these new drugs coming, bu... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• More on to Tell Or Not to Tell

  This is a topic that we all have spent some time on. Do we share our cancer story with friends, relatives, and colleagues? We all have different answers, and... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• Feeling Better

  

  1901 Life Magazine CoverI slept well past noon today- one of many things that I am thankful for, and even took a long post meal nap, and except for a sore,... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• I Am Sick - Or Maybe Not

  For the first time in years, I have come down with something.Or maybe not.Here's the story.Yesterday I got the relatively new conjugated more antigenic protein... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• iwCLL 2013: Dr. Jeff Sharman Discusses Why We Feels So Lousy with Cancer

  In Part 4 of my conversation with Dr. Sharman at iwCLL 2013, we start by discussing the lousy tired feeling that sadly so many of us are all too familiar with. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• New England Journal of Medicine: Going Nuts for Nuts: Another Break from CLL, bu...

  

  Any casual reader of my blog knows that I am a committed vegan.I love what I eat. Often only raw veggies, but sometimes a plain salad just isn't deeply... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• iwCLL 2013: Dr. Jeff Sharman Gets Down to Discussing How He Treats Patients...

  In Part 3 of our conversation from iwCLL 2013, Dr. Jeff Sharman talks about how he approaches a patient with 17 p deletion.This touches on the thorny issue of... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• iwCLL 2013: Pharmacogenetics and Dr. Jeff Sharman Discusses New Prognostic...

  In this interview from iwCLL 2013 with Dr. Jeff Sharman, a very clear teacher and community based cancer researcher, we learn about what I call the coming... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• iwCLL 2013: Dr. Jeff Sharman Discusses New Prognostic Factors and...

  In this interview with Dr. Jeff Sharman, a very clear teacher and community based cancer researcher, we learn about what I call the coming third generation of... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• It's All Too Much: The Loss of a CLL Friend and the Approval of Ibrutinib for...

  The world of CLL is unrelenting and demanding.I tried to step away for a few days, but news, good and bad, swirled into the center of my vision, and if that... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• A Break from CLL: Grandfather and Granddaughter

  

  Is there anything better in the world than having a baby fall asleep in your arms?Maybe if the baby is your granddaughter.Another reminder of why I am fighting... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• iwCLL 2013: Part 2: Dr. George Calin Explains More About the Critical Role of...

  Besides addressing our critical importance of needing to understand the biology of our cancer in order to stop it, in Part Two of my interview from iwCLL 2013,... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 COMMUNITY, HEALTH