The Leukemia Problem
Approximately every 3 minutes one person in the US is diagnosed with a blood cancer and approximately every 9 minutes someone in the US dies from a blood cancer. The current 5 year survival rate is about 60% which is still nowhere near acceptable, and this average was raised by the higher success rates of children which means adult survival rates are very low. The 5 year adult survival rate is lower than 30%, and the overall relapse rate is about 50%.