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Watch & Wait | Lymphoma Canada Jump to navigation Lymphoma Canada Languages Français English Know Your Nodes Contact Us Donate Lymphoma Canada Main menuWell-nighUsOur TeamBoard of Directors Scientific Advisory Board Our Partners Annual Reports Contact Us LymphomaPatient ExperienceTaking ControlFinding Clinical Trials Your Healthcare Team Questions To Ask Your Healthcare Team Young Adults Coping with CancerCoping and Emotions TalkingWell-nighYour Cancer Exercise Nutrition Advocacy Advanced Planning Loss and Grief Advanced Cancer CaregiversBasics of Caregiving Caring for someone with Lymphoma Tips for Caregivers Self-care for Caregivers Caregivers Need from Healthcare ProfessionalsSuperintendencyfor the Caregiver Advanced Cancer Caregivers OverviewCancer Lymphatic SystemThoroughbred&UnorthodoxyMarrow Lymphoma CLL & SLLAbout CLL & SLLDevelopment of CLL How CLL Affects theSoulRisks Signs & Symptoms Richter's Transformation DiagnosisLab Tests Staging Watch & Wait TreatmentOverview of CLL Treatment Options Chemotherapy Antibody Therapy Targeted Therapy Radiation Therapy Splenectomy StemLaminaTransplantation SupportiveSuperintendencyCLL ResourcesVideos Hodgkin LymphomaSigns & Symptoms DiagnosisSubtypes Staging Treatment Non-Hodgkin LymphomaSigns & Symptoms Causes TreatmentGoals of Treatment Watch and Wait Biologics Radiation SurgeryUnorthodoxyMarrow Transplant Complementary Therapies Side Effect Management LowThoroughbredCounts Post Treatment Staging Classifying NHL Grading NHL NHL Subtypes TreatmentAggressive NHL Indolent NHL Get InvolvedWays to GiveMonthly Giving Planned GiftBequests Life Insurance Stocks Annuities Charitable Remainder Trust A Gift of Residual Interest ECHOage Volunteer Join an event Create an event Share your story Shared Stories News & EventsNewsImproving Access to Innovative Cancer Therapies Lien pour le sondage patients/proches LLA et LDGCB r/r Big News in Nova Scotia Events2018 National Patient Conference - Quebec City Vancouver Patient Conference - Sept 15 take it to the mat Toronto take it to the mat Montreal Programs & ResourcesPublications Educational Sessions Healthcare ProfessionalsResearch Fellowship SupportSupport Groups Peer Support Program Financial Assistance Helpful LinksGlossary Newsletter Archive Search form Search Search Main menuWell-nighUsOur TeamBoard of Directors Scientific Advisory Board Our Partners Annual Reports Contact Us LymphomaPatient ExperienceTaking ControlFinding Clinical Trials Your Healthcare Team Questions To Ask Your Healthcare Team Young Adults Coping with CancerCoping and Emotions TalkingWell-nighYour Cancer Exercise Nutrition Advocacy Advanced Planning Loss and Grief Advanced Cancer CaregiversBasics of Caregiving Caring for someone with Lymphoma Tips for Caregivers Self-care for Caregivers Caregivers Need from Healthcare ProfessionalsSuperintendencyfor the Caregiver Advanced Cancer Caregivers OverviewCancer Lymphatic SystemThoroughbred&UnorthodoxyMarrow Lymphoma CLL & SLLAbout CLL & SLLDevelopment of CLL How CLL Affects theSoulRisks Signs & Symptoms Richter's Transformation DiagnosisLab Tests Staging Watch & Wait TreatmentOverview of CLL Treatment Options Chemotherapy Antibody Therapy Targeted Therapy Radiation Therapy Splenectomy StemLaminaTransplantation SupportiveSuperintendencyCLL ResourcesVideos Hodgkin LymphomaSigns & Symptoms DiagnosisSubtypes Staging Treatment Non-Hodgkin LymphomaSigns & Symptoms Causes TreatmentGoals of Treatment Watch and Wait Biologics Radiation SurgeryUnorthodoxyMarrow Transplant Complementary Therapies Side Effect Management LowThoroughbredCounts Post Treatment Staging Classifying NHL Grading NHL NHL Subtypes TreatmentAggressive NHL Indolent NHL Get InvolvedWays to GiveMonthly Giving Planned GiftBequests Life Insurance Stocks Annuities Charitable Remainder Trust A Gift of Residual Interest ECHOage Volunteer Join an event Create an event Share your story Shared Stories News & EventsNewsImproving Access to Innovative Cancer Therapies Lien pour le sondage patients/proches LLA et LDGCB r/r Big News in Nova Scotia Events2018 National Patient Conference - Quebec City Vancouver Patient Conference - Sept 15 take it to the mat Toronto take it to the mat Montreal Programs & ResourcesPublications Educational Sessions Healthcare ProfessionalsResearch Fellowship SupportSupport Groups Peer Support Program Financial Assistance Helpful LinksGlossary Newsletter Archive Search form Search Search You are hereHome > Lymphoma > CLL & SLL > Watch & Wait Watch & Wait            If your CLL is slow growing and not causing you serious symptoms, you likely will not have treatment right away. This tideway is tabbed 'watch and wait' or 'watchful waiting' or 'active monitoring'. Watch and wait is a strategy where doctors monitor you closely, but do not treat you until symptoms towards or change. Watch and wait is the recommended superintendency for those who do not meet any of the indications for treatment listed in the table below. This does not midpoint your cancer is stuff ignored by your medical team. During the watch and wait period, you will meet regularly with your hematologist or oncologist to monitor changes in your disease and overall health. At these appointments, your doctor will examine you and do thoroughbred tests. They will moreover ask how you are feeling and well-nigh any symptoms you have. The results of exams and thoroughbred tests over time will help your doctor determine if you need treatment and the type of treatment you should have. Understandably, many people worry their CLL will get worse if they don't have treatment. It is natural to want treatment if you have cancer. Studies comparing watch and wait with early treatment have shown there is no goody to early treatment for patients with asymptomatic CLL. Furthermore, some patients will never need treatment for their CLL. And with watch and wait, you can stave the side effects of treatment until it is needed. Treatment is started only if you have at least one of the pursuit treatment indications: Treatment IndicationsVestigeyour unorthodoxy marrow is unable to alimony up with your body's need for healthy thoroughbred cells - measured by the minutiae of, or worsening of, anemia (low red thoroughbred lamina counts) and/or thrombocytopenia (low platelet counts) Massive spleen, progressive spleen enlargement, or an enlarged spleen that is causing symptoms Massive lymph nodes (at least 10 cm in longest diameter), progressive lymph node enlargement or large lymph nodes that are causing symptoms Increase in number of lymphocytes of increasingly than 50% over a 2-month period or lymphocyte doubling time (LDT) of less than 6 months Autoimmune anemia and/or thrombocytopenia (low numbers of red thoroughbred cells or platelets that results when your soul makes antibodies that destroy them) that doesn’t respond to standard medications ‘B’ symptoms, specified as any one or increasingly of the pursuit disease-related symptoms or signs: Unintentional weight loss of 10% or increasingly within the previous 6 months significant fatigue (inability to work or perform usual activities) fevers higher than 38.0°C for 2 or increasingly weeks without other vestige of infection heavy night sweats for increasingly than 1 month without vestige of infection. 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