there was a patient named susan mcnamara from toronto and what was happening when this was going gone, perfectly timed with the rise -- couldn't have been better. cmo patients to find support and others going through the same thing you are going through. you won't find many people in your town and you're sitting with this disease but online, a whole community to be found of people going through what you were going through being treated with interferon which is a primary drug given to patients with cmo which is a very harsh drug, very harsh drug. or into a bond -- bone marrow transplant which is the -- still the only technical queue or for cmo but if you survive it, about a 50% chance and if you are eligible for it and can live with the side effects which lasted lifetime. so susan mcnamara was very sick and living between her bed and her computer two feet away and would go on to the cmo chat room and reading reports from people in the clinical trials posting about how great they felt when blood counts were back to normal and having incredible response to the drug. so druker asks to be

you're eligible for it, and if you can live with the side effects, which can last a lifetime, so susan mcnamara was very sick, and she was base lick living between her bed and her computer two feet away, and she would go on the cml chat rooms and be reading reports from people in the clinical trials post bg how great they felt, that their blood counts were back to normal, that they were having this incredible response to the drug. so she emails brian druker and asks if she can get on the study, and he says, i'll put you on the waiting list, but his waiting list was 100 patients long, and every time he got a new dose of the drug, he got permission to add another patient on the study, he had to choose which was the sickest. so he says, i'll put you on the waiting list, but i don't even know whether this drug is going to be made. i don't know when it's happening. i don't know when the trial will open in an expanded way, i just don't know, and maybe can you do something, and she said to me, you know, at that moment, i just felt there was no way that there was a drug in this world, that there was so