Welcome to the Fourth 2019 Issue of The CLL Society Tribune! So much to read there including amazing patient stories and my wife's Cajun Gingerbread recipe: cllsociety.org/quarter-4-20...
More of my top 10 articles from ASCO:
#8 Surviving CLL is only part of the story if we are going to succumb to second cancers. This ASCO abstract studies second cancers in CLL patients on ibrutinib or acalabrutib. See: cllsociety.org/2019/12/asco...
In his #7 of the top 10 CLL abstracts from ASH, Dr. Koffman reviews the encouraging data on the benefits of transplants for Richter’s Transformations. See: cllsociety.org/2019/12/asco...
Guest writer, Brian Maxson is a CLL patient and an inquisitive engineer who lays out the points Dr. Stilgenbauer made at the ERIC meeting about the timely topic of sequential versus combination therapies in CLL. See:cllsociety.org/2019/11/asco...
Thanks.
Stay strong. We are all in this together
Brian Koffman