WOW what a deifference a few years make!!

I was reading this article online, and brought tears to my eyes, its hard to hear what would have happened if darren had got this cancer 10 years ago

"WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA, OR C.M.L., PRIOR TO YOUR RESEARCH?

A. Life was pretty miserable. If you were over 40, the main therapy was interferon, which prolonged life for maybe a year in perhaps 20 to 30 percent of patients. Interferon made the patients feel awful — like the worst flu. The only other hope was a bone-marrow transplant for younger patients. The problem there was that the death rate in the first year was 25 to 50 percent.

C.M.L. patients were always difficult to see because both of us knew that the clock was ticking and there was virtually nothing that we could do about it

This has all changed since new drug came into the face of it all in 1999.
Full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/science/03conv.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1