CajunJeff has CLL, a form of Blood Cancer. This series of posts first appeared in the Health Unlocked CLL Support forum as CLL for Dummies (registration required to view). The only edits made were to change CLL to blood cancer where relevant. Used with permission Copyright CajunJeff 2020. You can e-mail CajunJeff here.
I cast my mind back to 2004 in India when I started with hot flushes and fainting. Then two campylobacter infections which didn’t clear up. Thought it…
In this Blood Cancer for Dummies article the focus is on clonal evolution which is the process by which cancer cells can acquire resistance to treatme…
We recently did an antibodies for dummies post. You might well ask why "monoclonal" antibodies gets its own dummy feature write up. That would be like…
Wait, what do antibodies have to do with blood cancer? A lot as it turns out. Many blood cancers are of a type of lymphocyte called a b-cell. The prim…
Ibrutinib is a relatively new and revolutionary drug that has changed the landscape for treating CLL . For many people, it might be the only leukemia …
When told I had chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) four years ago, all I heard was "leukemia". Google soon became my best friend and worst enemy. I ju…
I am betting most of us had a blood cancer tabula rasa at diagnosis, that is, our knowledge of blood cancer was a blank slate. When told I had CLL, al…
In the interest of full disclosure, I have no science background. To the contrary, science was my worst subject in high school. So when I was diagnose…
Virus for dummies part 1 was introductory in nature and talked a lot about viruses in general, less about covid-19 (covid) specifically . For those wh…
"Know yourself, know your enemy and you shall win a hundred battles without loss" was one of the tenets of Sun Tzu's Chinese military treatise, "The A…
I was invited to share my dummy posts here on Blood Cancer Uncensored so here goes. I am happy that some folks find the dummy posts helpful. I did not…