negative, i responded to stand chemotherapy, then her chances of survival would have buried -- terry kain since the time of hunter's clinic. part of the unpredictability of the trajectory of cancer in the future is that we do not know the biological bases. we cannot yet fathom for instance, what makes pancetta cancer so markedly different from cml, or atossa's breast cancer. what is certain, however, is that even the knowledge of canceled biology is unlikely to eradicate cancer fully from our life. as richard suggests and has atossa epitomizes, we might as we'll focus on prolonging life and eliminating death. so that's the second passage. how are we doing for time? is the time for one last passage or should we wrap up? one last passage. i'm going to read the very last passage in the book. a very short passage and i think it's the final summary of the book. this passage is, was actually probably the hardest for me to write, and, in fact, goes back to the question that john talk about why i had written this book. it was written as an answer to a question that a woman had raised, and so we r