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• Good News: Personal Update on My CLL (chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia)

  Sorry for my rare posting here. The CLL Society has kept me way too busy, but I am trying to reestablish a balance between my posts here and there. Watch for... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• 3 Important Papers on CLL (chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia) from ASCO 2015

  Friends,This week on CLL Society (http://cllsociety.org) in our 2015 conference coverage (http://cllsociety.org/conference-coverage/2015-conferences/) section,... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• CLL Biorepository for Research and Comments on Chemo from Patient Advocates

  Friends,This week we finally learned why they need so much blood of ours every time we are seen at a research center. We learned what a biorepository is and... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• Phase 1 Trials and My Advice on How to Survive and Be Your Own Best Advocate wit...

  Friends,This week we have published helpful information from two patients on the CLL Society website.The first is a thoughtful well-referenced editorial by... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• TITLE: CRC 2015: Dr. Neil Kay on Prognostic Indicators and Standard Early Care...

  This week’s new post on the CLL Society’s website brings us practical advice from Dr. Neil Kay out of Mayo clinic on prognostic indicators and how to manage... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• ESH 2014: The Future Role of FCR and New Data on Venetoclax and Rituximab in...

  I thought I sneak in one last post from LAX before I board my plane to Wroclaw, Poland via Munich.It is mostly about the new posts on the CLL Society's website... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• The Trend is Our Friend: Living with Uncertainty with My CLL (chronic Lymphocyti...

  My lab test have shown a blip.After a gradual but steady improvement in my tumor burden visit after visit at Ohio State University (OSU) during my last three... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• Friends,FriendsThis Week’s CLL Update on the Http://cllso...

  Friends,FriendsThis week’s CLL update on the http://cllsociety.org is the first part of my interview with Professor Hallek on possible drug combinations using... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• Biologic and Immune Therapies for CLL (chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia)

  

  Hi Friends,This week’s update on the CLL Society website http://cllsociety.org is my unscripted recordings on biologic or immunotherapies. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• This Week in CLL: (chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia) Chemotherapy, News of the Helio...

  The annual humongous meeting of ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) 2015 in Chicago did offer those of us with CLL ( chronic lymphocytic leukemia) a fe... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• Living With CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia): My Personal Clinical Trial News...

  

  "Brushstrokes in Flight" by Roy Lichtenstein at CMH airportIf you want to skim through my long miserable travel story, and just get to the lab results and my... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• Dr. Wiestner on Novel Therapies for CLL (chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia), Oral...

  Our very thin CLL Society team is busy preparing for the ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) 2015 Annual meeting which starts at the end of this week i... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• Use of CME (Continuing Medical Education) to Impact Self-reported Changes in...

  Honestly, most of my fellow family doctors (FP) know very little hematology. This may be even more true of other primary care providers. Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• ASH 2014: Professor Hillmen Discusses the Trials Acceleration Program for CLL...

  In this week's new postings on the CLL Society website on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (May 11th,13th, and 15th), Professor Peter Hillmen from Leeds, England... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• ASH 2014: Dr. Kipps Explains ROR1 and How CLL (chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia) is...

  When I had a chance at ASH (American Society of Hematology) 2014 to interview my doctor, Dr. Tom Kipps, he first talked about the ROR1 trials that has recently... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• Three Year Anniversary on Ibrutinib for My CLL (chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia)

  

  A Man and his PillsOn May 7, 2012, I swallowed my first three battleship grey pills of PCI-32765, later to be known as ibrutinib and finally Imbruvica when... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• World Health Organization Calls for Results from All Clinical Trials to Be...

  

  Betsy Dennison is a nurse practitioner and a wonderful educator with whom I have worked for more than five years in a effort to teach family doctors about the... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• Questionable Online Advice from a Physician About CLL (chronic Lymphocytic...

  OK, class. What is wrong with the advice this syndicated doctor is giving to his inquiring patient?Here is the link to one paper's column so you can read the... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• ASH 2014: Rough Notes from Dr. Clive Zent and D.r Wiestner on Prognostic...

  I found these notes that I had originally planned to use to develop blog posts based on a lecture that I attended at ASH 2014.I still might do that, but first... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH

• Shared Decision Making, Risk Assessment, and The Doctor- Patient Relationship

  

  Welcome to my world as a practicing physician. Here is your chance to learn of the secret sacrifices we doctors make in the inner sanctum of the temple of... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2015 COMMUNITY, HEALTH