CLL Diary

My beloved soulmate, David, died on March 6. I'll post details when I'm emotionally able. Marilyn                           ...

I've met with my transplant/CLL doctor, Jose Leis, at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix. He was pleased with my response to Ibrutinib -- dramat...

Update: Ibrutinib has just been approved by the FDA for CLL, which should make it widely available to CLL and Richter's patients. I h...

As the title of this post implies, things have changed since October , when it appeared I had achieved a pretty good response to treatment....

In the immortal words of Futurama's Professor Hubert Farnsworth, who I am growing to look like more every day, "Good news, everyone...

Marilyn and I ran across a sculpture garden devoted to cancer survivors in a park near downtown Santa Rosa, California. It's properly kn...

Greetings from the cancer ward of Banner Baywood Medical Center in Mesa, AZ, where I am undergoing round four of chemotherapy to combat agg...

When last I wrote , things were looking pretty good. I had gotten a better-than-expected result from bendamustine and rituximab. I was plann...

The results are in. After five cycles of bendamustine (Treanda) and rituximab, which ended in mid-November, I can report that the treatment ...

I knew I was feeling more energetic recently when, after going up and down the stairs moving a dozen cardboard boxes, I didn't feel espe...