i have chronic lymphatic leukemia what questions should i ask my doctor?

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i CLL and i'm meeting with my doctor for the first time since i was told. i don't know alot about the disease and i just don't know what i should ask my doctor.
I would make sure you know your stage, which goes from 0 to 4. If you've had a bone marrow biopsy, ask for a thorough explanation of what that means. You have a right to all your medical records, so bring home copies for home study. There are a lot of good web sites with information (or you can find someone to point you to it). Remember, the doc now works for you, and get all the contact phone numbers, pagers, doctor's exchange, e-mails and, most importantly, butter up the office nurse. Just kidding, but a lot of things can be accomplished through the nurse. Also, ask about clinical trials you might qualify for.

Determining your stage is very, very important, and your staging workup might not be complete yet. For stage 0, they basically just watch your white blood cell counts. For stage IV, there is a lot more involved.

I wish you luck and will keep you in my thoughts. Get some sleep and it will help.  (+ info)

what is chronic eosinophilic leukemia?

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I need more answer why someone die with this kind of leukemia I spoke with hematologist and I searched alot through internet I now a lot, but the thing I can not believed is why somreone die because of this leukemia?
Here's the site with the best info:
http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/hm_lls
Best wishes  (+ info)

Small lymphocytic lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia?

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What are the differences between these two diseases? Do they always occur simultaneously? Why are they always combined like SLL/CLL, are they the same disease?
Include details as much as you can please.im a medical student so i need details.
Thank You!
These are basically the same disease, just represent different clinical manifestations. There have been attempts to classify them separately based on flow cytometry and other molecular findings but ultimately it looks like the same disease. With SLL, the dominant site is nodal, while in CLL, it is bone marrow and bloodstream. There are times when there is so much overlap that it is not possible to tell which "disease" it is.... hence you commonly see it referred to as SLL/CLL. Effective drugs are similar, as is prognosis.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/CLL/healthprofessional/

The above site has lots of CLL info; same site as plethora of NHL info as well.

Hope helps...
Blessings  (+ info)

Is "Chronic Myeloid Leukemia" communicable or an infectious disease? Can a normal person marry CML patient?

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Like all cancers, CML is neither contagious nor infectious. And yes, a healthy person can safely marry a CML patient. I wish you the best in your marriage!  (+ info)

Does anybody know if any clinical trials for chronic lymphocytic leukemia are nearing the end of there trials?

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Any info would be greatly received
This site register all ongoing clinical trials
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00098371  (+ info)

Anyone have Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia?

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Anyone with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia? I'm a 14 year old girl with it and I want someone to talk with thats going through it as well. Its so rare and I cant find anyone! Also, any good chat rooms or message boards online specifically for cml? I can't find any. I would love someone to talk with about this because I want to talk with someone who can relate with me. Thanks for the help!
I have it, I'm 15. I once found a message board about it, but i don't remember the name, i've never really been into the message board thing.

Edit: i found the forum, you can ask questions, talk to other people on there etc.
http://cancerfocus.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=20

you can also use this, it's a support group, there's one specifcally for CML.
http://www.acor.org/leukemia/support.html#cml  (+ info)

How isacute myelogenous leukemia different than chronic lymphoma leukemia?

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isacute = is acute
White blood cells develop from precursors in the bone marrow. There are several stages that the bone marrow cell must pass through in order to go from hematopoetic stem cell to mature white blood cell. In one of these steps, the cell can decide to become either the precusor of the myeloid lineage (myelocytes give rise to granuloucytes, the neutrophils, basophils, and eosinophils), or of the lymphoid lineage (which eventually give rise to the T and B lymphocytes). The difference between CML and CLL (the "chronic," or slowly-progressing, forms of leukemia) is in which lineage the white blood cell becomes cancerous.
In CML, the cancer cells develop from the myeloid precursors, which are the hematopoeitic stem cells (red and white-blood-cell-producing stem cells in your bone marrow). These cells are also called myelocytes or granulocytes. Thus, the "M" in CML (sometimes referred to as chronic granulocytic leukemia, but the terms mean the same thing).
In CLL, the cancer cells develop from the lymphoid precursor cells, which leads to the mass-production of B lymphocytes.
In both cases, the DNA of the cancerous cell is damaged, so that it can't fight infection, but the damage allows the cell to grow out of control (usually the body finely controls how much a cell can divide and grow), and crowds out the healthy blood cells. Thus, your body has a difficult time fighting infection, and you feel tired because it takes a lot of energy to constantly replicate cancerous cells.  (+ info)

I want to know if there is a treatment for Chronic lymphocytic leukemia at level 0 (no chemotherapy)?

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Integrator? Vitamins?
Yes, see below.  (+ info)

What's the longest you've known anyone with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia to live?

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I was diagnosed 2 months ago.
Well you se...nowadays,chronic lymphocitic leukemia, is compatible with NORMAL average life span,
Why? because, now, it is diagnosed more accurately, and its is so slow with proper treatment, that a normal life span can be expected (by that, I mean, that if the patient follows his-her treatment, life expectancy is no different from other people the same age).
With chronic control of the leukemis with cytostatics (cladibrine, arabinosid cytosine etc) there will be less symptoms of gum bleeding, skin hematiomas, scxeral bleeding (red eye due to focal small hemorrhages) etc
The biggest risk is, that because of the white cells that defend our body (Lymphocytes) are NON functional in a great proportion, in the specific case of chronic lymphocitic leukemia (CLL) the patient can be exposed to more infections by bacteria and some viruses that the average population. Checking possible sources of infection every 6-8 weeks is ideal.
checking your lymphocite count and peripheral blood smear every 2 months helps a lot also.(checked by the internist or hematologist)
In general, with good prevention, the span of life is as I said, equal to the normal population.
Remember that. the word cancer is hateful, however we have the fast growing, and very slowly growing types in the spectrum
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, belongs to the second. (very slowly progressing production of non functional leukocytes) is normally seen6 times mora in males, and after the age of 65 (could appear earlier in some scanty cases)  (+ info)

Can anyone tell me about chronic lymphocytic leukemia & the treatments for this? ?

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My grandmother is 74. 6 months ago she was diagnosed with CLL. They told her 6 months ago that she would probably never have to be treated for this disease in her life time, but now it's doubled...
One excellent source of information is the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society. They have easy to understand and reliable information about all leukemias.

Check out their page for CLL.....
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