With 5, 6 years in remission before needing treatment and being off of therapy with high-risk disease features, it is still a very valid treatment approach. And some may argue it would still be the best approach for these patients as you try to eliminate these clones and get to an MRD-...
many years without needing any therapy, living a normal life, completely fine. In addition, believe it or not, about a quarter of patients with CLL never need treatment. The disease