What disease does Jeremy Mansfield have? B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia

SHOOT: It's incurable but you can expect to live from 5 to 25 years or more with this disease.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org CLL is a disease of adults. Most (>75%) people newly diagnosed with CLL are over the age 50, and the majority are men. In the United States during 2007, it is estimated there will be 15,340 new cases diagnosed and 4,500 deaths[2], but because of prolonged survival, many more people are living with CLL.[citation needed] Most people are diagnosed without symptoms as the result of a routine blood test that returns a high white blood cell count, but as it advances CLL results in swollen lymph nodes, spleen, and liver, and eventually anemia and infections. Early CLL is not treated, and late CLL is treated with chemotherapy and monoclonal antibodies. Survival varies from 5 years to more than 25 years. It is now possible to diagnose patients with short and long survival more precisely by examining the DNA mutations, and patients with slowly-progressing disease can be reassured and may not need any treatment in their lifetimes.[3]