CBS Newsman Ed Bradley Dies of CLL Complications

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 -- Veteran television reporter Ed Bradley has died of complications of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) at the age of 65.

Bradley, a co-anchor of the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes," was diagnosed with CLL "many years ago," according to Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., his cardiologist and the director of Mount Sinai Heart at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, where Bradley died.

However, Dr. Fuster told reporters, the disease was not life-threatening until recently when Bradley contracted an infection that his damaged immune system was unable to defeat.

CLL is characterized by a progressive accumulation of functionally incompetent lymphocytes and is the most common form of leukemia among adults. Up to 17,000 new cases are reported yearly in the U.S.

The incidence is similar in most Western countries, but the disease is rare in Asian countries. In Japan, for instance, only 10% of all leukemias are CLL.

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