Talk about side effects from CLL treatment with your doctor

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Michele Nadeem-Baker
Advocate

Michele Nadeem-Baker has lived with CLL for more than a decade. She worked nationally as a broadcast journalist and globally as the chief of communications for a major corporation before stepping down in 2012 to focus on her health and advocacy work. Today, she's a patient representative, providing insight and advice on CLL to the FDA, as well as an advocate who helps patients navigate their care, treatment options, and coping skills.

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SOURCES:

Michele Nadeem-Baker, CLL patient advocate, Boston.

Scott Huntington, MD, medical director, Hematology Outpatient Program, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT. 

Nitin Jain, MD, associate professor, department of leukemia, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. 

Cancer.net: “When to Call the Doctor During Cancer Treatment.”

Leukaemia Foundation: “Side effects of CLL treatment.”

National Cancer Institute: “Sleep Problems in People with Cancer.”