MgMichael

Ray is spot on but it's only human to want to know the odds.
Gary's post echoes my RO, MO & ENT
[quote]
Recurrence is an interesting topic. If you have a recurrence within the first year of treatment your outcome may not be good. 80% of recurrences that DO occur, happen in the first year (and most of those recurrences are fatal). In the second year the percentage drops to 15%. After that a recurrence at the primary site drops to 5% so year 1 and 2 are milestones.[/quote]

You can have your cake and eat it too in a sense by just waiting a few more months until your one year is gone. Then you are pretty golden. The majority of the OCF posters do NOT have a recurrence although those of us who do are prolific posters so it may give a skewed impression of its prevalence.

Gary
thank you for the info. Guess I am lucky my recurrence within the one year after TX was not fatal (my TX ended mid November 2007 and suspicious lump felt NOV 20080. Hope my luck holds.
Charm