I'm glad this article calls out the CLL drug ibrutinib. You hear a lot of people say "why aren't we making progress in treating cancer?". Well we are, ibrutinib is a great example.
The clinical trial data I looked at a couple year ago is a little fuzzy, but basically if you had CLL and the 17p deletion, your chance of being alive after 2 years was ~25% (using the standard of care before ibrutinib). In the ibrutinib clinical trial, 95%+ of 17p CLL patients were still alive after 2 years.
A massive jump forward in the treatment of cancer.
> we should rely on more than chance in such settings—for instance, by using smartphones
What teaching CPR in mid and high school repetitively every year, even basic stuff in elementary?
I have been introduced to sports I knew I would hate, hated and still hate in phys ed, they tryed to teech me spelling, etc... It wouldn't add much to the curriculum to add CPR but could have a major impact.
"Where is the nearest AED" would be helpful, too. (If you have an office with more than X people, or any establishment open to the public, and you don't have an AED, you should reconsider. More of an issue with middle aged/older people, but there are heart attacks in even healthy young people, and not all people are healthy.)
The clinical trial data I looked at a couple year ago is a little fuzzy, but basically if you had CLL and the 17p deletion, your chance of being alive after 2 years was ~25% (using the standard of care before ibrutinib). In the ibrutinib clinical trial, 95%+ of 17p CLL patients were still alive after 2 years.
A massive jump forward in the treatment of cancer.