Updates In CLL Treatments

John C. Byrd, MD, a professor of Medicine at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses updates in the treatment of CLL.

Clinical Pearls:

• Patient-friendly therapies are changing the lives of patients with CLL.
• These oral therapies are active and successfully controlling the disease for an extended period of time.
• By combining new, active agents, physicians are moving closer to finding a cure for patients with CLL.
• With updates in treatment options, physicians can now start to move away from using chemotherapy to treat patients with CLL.