Carmelita Escalante

Fatigue is a side effect shared by just about every patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). In this replay of a recent CLL Answers Now program, CLL patient and host Brad Adams and Carmelita Escalante, MD, from the Cancer-Related Fatigue Clinic at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston discussed how fatigue factors into quality of life, strategies to minimize its impact on patients, and what we have learned from research about managing fatigue.

View next Published on August 17, 2021 Managing Cancer-Related Fatigue in CLL Carmen Escalante, MD, founded the Cancer-Related Fatigue Clinic at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in the late 90s. In this segment, Dr. Escalante is joined by patient advocates Michele Nadeem-Baker and Jeff Folloder to discuss what she and her team have learned about cancer fatigue and how CLL patients can better understand and manage this debilitating symptom.

View next Published on August 16, 2021 Expert Discusses Clinical Interventions for Cancer Fatigue Fatigue is one of the most common, debilitating symptoms of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). In this segment, Carmen Escalante, MD, discusses the clinical interventions being used at MD Anderson’s Cancer Fatigue Clinic to help patients fight their cancer fatigue and improve their quality of life. Support for this series has been provided by Janssen Oncology and Pharmacyclics LLC.