Overview of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

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  • What is Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • About leukemia Leukemia is a cancer of the blood. Leukemia begins when healthy blood cells change and grow out of control. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a cancer of the lymphocytes. Lymphocytes are white blood cells involved in the immune...
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  • Statistics of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • CLL is more common in older people even though it can happen at any age. The average age of diagnosis is around 70. CLL is not common in people younger than 40 and is extremely rare in children. CLL is the most common type of leukemia in adults olde...
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  • Risk Factors for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • A risk factor can be anything that influences the development of any cancer. But having a risk factor, or many does not give certainty of having particular cancer. Some people with no risk factors can also develop cancer.  The cause of CLL is no...
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  • Prevention of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • There are significantly fewer known risk factors for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The methods of prevention are under research. Currently, general prevention methods such as controlling the consumption of alcohol, cigarette smoking, and radiation e...
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  • Symptoms and Signs for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • People having Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia can experience the following signs or symptoms. Most often, people with CLL show no symptoms. Or, the cause of a symptom can be a different medical condition that is not leukemia. Often, people are diagn...
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  • Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Many tests are performed to find or diagnose cancer. They also do tests to see if cancer has spread to another part of the body from where it began. If this happens, it is called metastasis. For instance, imaging tests can represent if cancer has sp...
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  • Stages of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Staging is the procedure of determining where the tumour is located, whether it has spread or not, and how it grows. While assessing the cancer stage, many factors are taken into account. Doctors use diagnostic tests to discover cancer's stage, so s...
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  • Types of Treatment for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • "Standard to care" refers to the best-known treatment. In cancer care, different doctors work together to bring out an overall treatment plan for the patient. This is called a multidisciplinary team.  Treatments recommendations depend on many fa...
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  • Clinical Trials About Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • On the path to finding different ways to treat cancer, various research and trials have been carried out to find safe and effective treatments other than the standard ones. Every drug that is in use now was once tested in clinical trials. The clinic...
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  • Latest Research On Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Doctors are learning more about CLL; ways to prevent it; the best way to treat it; and how to give the best care to people diagnosed with this disease. The following research areas may comprise new alternatives for patients with the help of clinical...
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  • Coping with the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • A cancer diagnosis can be overburdening, but you can find ways to cope with stress and uncertainty with time. Whether chemotherapy or radiotherapy, every cancer treatment has its side effects that can cause changes in the body, either physically ...
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  • Follow-up Care for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Care for a cancer patient does not end with the end of active treatment that was going on. Even after that, the health care team looks after the cancer recurrence, managing the side effects developed due to the treatment and monitoring your overall ...
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  • Survivorship for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Survivorship can have different meanings for different people. But commonly, it refers to; Having no signs of cancer post-treatmentCancer survivorship initiates from the moment of diagnosis and continues during treatment and throughout a person's...
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  • Additional Resources for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Here are a few links - https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/leukemia-chronic-lymphocytic-cllhttps://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-lymphocytic-leukemia/symptoms-causes/syc-20352428https://www.cancer.org/cancer/chronic-lymphocytic-l...