11-year-old Jonathan Varghese is on his way to being just a normal healthy kid thanks to his “heroes” at MSK. After a routine tonsillectomy in August 2015, his doctors, concerned that there was something more going on, sent his tissues for screening. It was then that they learned he had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). With a recommendation from an oncologist friend in Boston, Jonathan began a two-year intensive chemotherapy protocol developed at MSK under the supervision of Dr. Peter Steinherz. With this therapy, there was a 90% success rate for patients treated at the hospital. Jonathan only has a few months left of his protocol. “His prognosis is excellent,” Steinherz said. “The first year is the riskiest. Over the next two years, he has about a 10% risk of something coming back.”