Updated 26/1/08
If you have CLL and you are reading this, you have heard of Terry Hamblin. He is one of the world’s experts on the subject of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia. Now retired, he doesn’t seem to have stopped working. On his blog, Mutations Of Mortality he states the following – “Professor of Immunohaematology Southampton 1986 to present. I now work part time researching, writing, reviewing, editing, speaking, sitting on committees, advising, answering questions and thinking.” His blog must take up some considerable time as well. There are ninety eight posts on the subject of CLL, and if you want to read them, you have to read the whole blog, as there is no index at present. Until now. The rest of this post links to all the CLL related posts on Mutations of Mortality.
If you are new to CLL, then read the following three posts, “What is the aim of treatment” Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3. At the same time read “Who Needs Treatment?” – this will give you a balanced start in the process of learning about CLL. I think you should also read “Alternative Medicine” too, also as part of a sensible introduction to the illness.
What follows is a reverse chronological order list of all ninety eight posts, by title. That means that the most recent is first, and the oldest is last, like in all good blogs.
History Of CLL (Part 5) To The End Of The Millenium 16th Feb 2008
History Of CLL (Part 4) Complications 16th Feb 2008
History Of CLL (Part 3) Clinical Staging 16th Feb 2008
History Of CLL (Part 2) The Twentieth Century 16th Feb 2008
History Of CLL (Part 1) Historical Aspects Of CLL 15th Feb 2008
MCV (Mean Corpuscular Volume) 25th Jan 2008
Transplants in CLL 13th Jan 2008
Secondary Malignancies 6th Jan 2008
Secondary MDS And Acute Leukaemia 3rd Jan 2008
Anti Oxidants 7th Dec 2007
Quality of life 6th Dec 2007
Escalating Cost Of Cancer Drugs 4th Dec 2007
Vaccination Against Pneumonia 19th Nov 2007
Stem Cell Transplant, A Lifelong Commitment
Guidelines For Clinical Trials
Del 11q23 (a clarification for CLLers with deleted 11q23)
How Many Mutations Are You Allowed?
Prognostic Markers In Bournmouth
To Treat Or Not To Treat (this post was written after the untimely death of Kurt Grayson)
Watching And Waiting Too Long (this one too)
Why Should I Get My Prognostic Markers Done?
Consolidation Therapy With Alemtuzumab
Bone Marrow Transplantation For CLL
The Label Came Off (About NICE, the FDA and Big Pharma)
Treatment Of CLL (First draft of an article for The Lancet)
CLL Mistakes (Mistakes non specialists might make)
NICE Work (xx)
What Questions Should I Ask The Doctor?
What Is The Aim Of Treatment Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3
Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphona (SMZL)
Monoclonal Antibodies 3: mainly About Campath
Monoclonal Antibodies Part 2: Rogers Brambell
Nutlins (Good with purine analogues)
Beta Glucan To Enhance Rituximab
Bone Marrow Aspirates And Trephine Biopsies
Other Prognostic Factors – Doubling Time
CLLs and VH Mutation Graph (My Own Title)
Lack Of Correlation Graph (My own title)
Graph From Chiorazzi (Illustrating cd38 as a prognostic marker)
One Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words (Survival curve)
A Diagram Of The Heavy Chain Immunoglobulin Genes
How Do You Know If You Have CLL
What Is Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia?
That is a lot of information, ranging from the basic introductory stuff for the newly diagnosed, to teh most cutting edge research of teh illness.
Endearingly, teh Professor’s cavalier attitude to teh word teh, shines through his blog. I hope this little index will be useful to those of us seeking to learn. I shall try to keep it up to date.
Wayne Wells said
Thanks Andy,
A great service to consolidate what most of us are after.
Jan Buskell said
Oh boy, am I ever glad to see this list, Andy! Thanks so very much for putting it together. In just a moment, I’ll have it bookmarked.
Jan *teh* wife of Kelly – about to take his last 4-day round of FCR
Andy Ward said
Wow.What a great site this is !
. Thought I would just “drop by” after reading your response to my post on my Scirocco2morocco blog page.
.Andy
Keep up the good work