{"id":799,"date":"2008-07-02T21:29:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T05:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/07\/02\/a-little-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2008-07-02T21:29:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T05:29:47","slug":"a-little-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/07\/02\/a-little-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"a little thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"
Five years ago, my wife was diagnosed with Chronic Mylogenous Leukemia. As we began to understand what was happening, we had many tears, but put our trust in the Lord. This summer marks a milestone. Left untreated, CML life expectancy is about five years. But we thank God for the work of many scientists (surely some of them – most? – unregenerated). Two years prior to our diagnosis, they had successfully brought to approval the new wonder drug, Gleevec.<\/p>\n
Gleevec turned a death sentence into a chronic condition, with next to no side effects for my dear wife. (Except she complains about gaining back the weight she lost with active leukemia!)<\/p>\n
Newsweek has an article called “A Step Past Chemotherapy<\/a>” that describes some of the new approaches being taken in treating cancers of all kinds, following the path blazed largely by Gleevec.<\/p>\n In the article, these are the lines that got me thinking about our milestone:<\/p>\n\n