What You’ll Learn: A Patient-Led Guide to CLL

Our “Office Hours” bridge the gap between clinical expertise and lived experience. In this program, we tackle the topics that matter most to your daily life:

• Understanding Your Diagnosis: Learn exactly what CLL is—a cancer of the immune system—and why it often acts more like a lymphoma than a traditional leukemia.
• The “Watch and Wait” Strategy: Get an expert explanation on why “active surveillance” (monitoring without immediate treatment) is often the safest, most effective path forward.
• Daily Living & Wellness: Discover how simple lifestyle adjustments, from vitamin D to regular exercise, can help manage common symptoms like fatigue and keep you “treatment-ready.”
• The Power of Second Opinions: Understand why seeing a CLL specialist—especially when transitioning from surveillance to treatment—is a vital step in your advocacy toolkit.
• Your Actionable Roadmap: Walk away with a “Shower Check” routine for monitoring lymph nodes and a clear understanding of the genetic tests (like FISH and IGHV) that define your personalized care plan.

Expert Panel:

• Dr. Adam Kittai, MD
  Associate Professor of Medicine and Hematology/Oncology; Assistant Director of Lymphoma Clinical Research
  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
• Michele Nadeem-Baker
  CLL Patient Advocate & Oncology Host