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COVID-19 and Blood Cancer an Expert’s View – with Prof Peter Hillmen

Watch this video if you need a bit of hope from one of the World’s Leading Experts in CLL. Just how risky is catching COVID19 for blood cancer patients? Should we be stuck indoors alone for many more months?

Can we begin to cautiously emerge? How do we weigh the very real risk from COVID-19, against the very real costs of shielding which include risks to people’s health and even life. Prof Peter Hillmen urges people who get sick to come to hospital as normal and explains how doctors and nurses are working hard to keep people safe.


We talk about the so-called entry strategy including vaccines, antibody tests, how to know if it is safe to go out, and his optimistic view that shielding will likely be gradually relaxed rather than suddenly lifted at the end of June. He believes that soon Covid19 will be behind us all and be remembered as a strange blip that caused a lot of trouble but which got eradicated.

Watch part one of the Prof Hillmen interview: CLL overview – past, present, and a hopeful future.

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Adrian Warnock
  • Adrian Warnock
  • Dr. Adrian Warnock is a medical doctor and clinical research expert who was himself diagnosed with blood cancer in May 2017. Adrian worked in the pharmaceutical industry for fifteen years helping to run the clinical trials that bring us new medicines and communicate the results. Before this he practised in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), as a psychiatrist, for eight years.

    Adrian is a published author, the founder of Blood Cancer Uncensored, and has written a Christian blog since 2003 at Patheos. He is passionate about learning how to approach suffering with hope and compassion. Adrian's articles are not medical advice and he is not a haematologist or blood cancer doctor. Always seek individualised advice from your health care professionals. You can e-mail Adrian here.