Barbara Eichhorst, MD, from the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, speaks about the influence of a patient’s personal situation on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) treatment choice at the 2017 British Society for Haematology (BSH) Annual Scientific Meeting in Brighton, UK. She discusses aspects including travel time to the medical center, underlying comorbidities and tolerability of intravenous infusions. Dr Eichhorst also highlights that it is also important to consider subsequent treatment options.