just wanted to share our news that today we have now celebrated 5 years post FCR .
My husband was diagnosed in 2016 with CLL. We then had nearly 5 years of W&W until treatment beckoned in the most unfortunate year - 2020 covid., where we were allocated FCR via the UK flair trial.
He’s IGVA unmutated. - let’s hope this remission continues..
Spreading hope and optimism to all xxx
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May you and your husband enjoy many more years in remission. I am unmutated and finished FCR in Dec 2018 in UK. 6 years so far and bloods still stable. Long may that continue for us all!
Thats great news, delighted for you!I'm also still in remission after having FCR in 2017.. love to hear good news stories, as it's usual press is bad 😀Happy Friday all!
Congrats to your husband! 🎉 I am new to CLL and I am also unmutated IGHV. I thought we weren’t allowed to to FCR if we had unmutated? Interested to learn more.
As Cheshire2016 stated, her husband was "allocated FCR via the UK flair trial". In that trial, patients were randomly allocated to either FCR, which was the gold standard treatment at the time, or various arms including ibrutinib, with or without other drugs, such as venetoclax, to assess how patients fared in comparison with FCR. It was brave people like Cheshire's husband and others on previous trials, that determined that ibrutinib was vastly superior to FCR for unmutated IGHV folk.
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