Re: cll or ordinary dermatologist (plantars warts and CLL)

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Hi Adrienne,

As you know from my emails, I think that anything you

develop needs to be considered in light of your CLL, and

that includes cutaneous conditions. There are solid medical

reasons for that, having to do, for instance, with

suppressed Langerhans cells or cutaneous dendritic cells.

Do you have a CLL specialist who could consult with your

dermatologist?

Is your dermatologist the right person at this point?

Try this link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=CLL%20and%20plantar%27s%20warts

or http://tinyurl.com/3hag2l8

I see the author of the first listed article is Dr. T. J.

Hamblin. Dr Hamblin is a retired CLL researcher-clinician

of great accomplishment. He still maintains a blog on CLL,

and stays current in the field. He posts on the ACOR list

from time-to-time to our great collective benefit. You can

reach him through http://mutated-unmuated.blogspot.com/

(although the second word is misspelled, the link is

correct). I also recognize Dr. Catovsky's name from the

second article.

Perhaps someone else has ideas on this, too.

Regards,

Tim

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From: Adrienne Lippman

Tim Klug

Sent: Thu, August 11, 2011 3:20:08 PM

Subject: Re: cll or " ordinary " dermatologist

thanks so much for your information...right now i am having

a problem with plantar warts...that don't seem to want to go

away...just about everything has been tried by my

podiatrist...who is quite willing to research and experiment

with lots of different tx...none of which worked..surgery

was the next option...not particularly a great success was

predicted since i've already gone that route with him on one

wart...which has since grown back...he is afraid this

surgery will require making a deep incision...on the

bottom of my foot...not a great way to walk around to say

the least and great possibility of infection, again with no

promise of permanent removal of the warts either...thus he

suggested I go to my dermatologist and try lazer tx...but i

am not sure that this dermatologist .who has an excellent

reputation seems to feel there is any difference in treating

cll patients.....and, of course, in this case he might be

correct...

I have corresponded with Beth ..who is great...thanks for

reminding me...