Crichton's passing

Its not unusual these days to see and hear of people who die of cancer.

I am in fact working in a field selling oncology products that will benefit cancer patients whom a majority of them WILL eventually succumb to the disease. Back before my days in the pharmaceutical industry, I only know chemotherapy and radiotherapy being the only treatments for cancer. Little did I know the myriad of additional targeted therapies and new mode of drug entities that are available for treatment of cancer. These are ultra expensive, high tech, highly complicated, highly targeted therapies that even I, handling one of the best targeted therapy the world has to offer in the form of the first ever anti-angiogenic monoclonal antibody, can tell you off hand, I wouldn't be able to afford to buy (touch wood) if I ever needed it. And still all they do is prolong lives with a promise of its quality. No cure.

Yes the world may have some idea about creating a cure for cancer. New advancements and curent major clinical trials that are on are optimistic we're getting close to finding it, but as of now, NO, THERE IS STILL NO ABSOLUTE CURE FOR CANCER.

So, yesterday Michael Crichton eventually did succumb to it too.

Who is Michael Cricton? A man whose birthday is shy just a number to mine.

Remember ER? Jurassic Park? He's the guy who created these. And I happen to be a fan of both ER and JP. At the time JP was made a popular movie in 1993, I was then 11 and haven't quite gotten enough sense to warrant the eligibilty to own my own IC, but I remembered, I thought it was one of the most brilliant films around. I was totally amused by it, I probably watched it so many times, my eyes bled.

I'm not sure how I feel about this; him passing on. I just know that a great author has died and now, I must make a point to watch "The Andromeda Strain".