[Neil Cuadra]

There are three reasons that the news is even better than this report shows:

1. The data is from a few years back, as you point out. Recent data would contain even better statistics.
   
   
2. As transplant success rates go up, the pool of patients eligible for transplants grows. That's why the median age rose from 33 to 40; older patients are getting transplants. If the ages of patients were still limited as in the past, the measured success rates would be even higher.
   
   
3. For the same reasons, patients with less-ideal health conditions are now undergoing transplants, where in the past the tradeoffs wouldn't have warranted undergoing the risks of a transplant. If the restrictions of the past were still applied today, the measured success rates would be even higher.