When blood cancer does not go away
Watch and Wait
You may be worried if your doctor suggests that you wait before starting treatment. Watch and wait is an approach where your doctor monitors your cancer closely and delays treatment until the disease progresses.
It is often used at the beginning of slow-growing or chronic blood cancers, such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and some subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).
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You are not alone.
Experiences of others with a chronic blood cancer
Chronic or Slow Growing Blood Cancers
Large granular lymphocytic (LGL) leukemia
B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (B-PLL) – can be indolent
Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) - More information available
Hairy Cell Leukemia - More information available
Follicular lymphoma - More information available
Small cell lymphocytic lymphoma-chronic lymphocytic leukemia - More information available
Mucosa-associated lymphatic tissue (MALT) lymphoma
Mantle cell lymphoma – can be indolent - More information available
Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma
Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia - Factsheet available
Splenic marginal zone lymphoma – generally indolent
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis – can be indolent
Smoldering multiple myeloma
Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS) - More information available
Myelodysplastic syndromes - More information available
Myeloproliferative neoplasms - More information available