Overall survival

Five-year survival in adult CLL patients is 85-90%. Five-year survival rates vary according to patients’ age at diagnosis (Table 4).

Table 4          Five-year survival of CLL patients according to age at diagnosis

Age at diagnosis Five-year survival (%)
18-59 years 95%
60-69 years 91%
70-79 years 85%
≥80 years 77%