Welcome John, every cancer patient here is a head and neck cancer survivor or caregiver, some say fighter. Whatever you choose. In some cancer centers you may not run into many head and neck cancer patients as you would other cancers, or know who they are, if that's what you were referring too, as not finding many out there. I didn't meet, know of any head and neck cancer patients, especially tonsil, until a year after my initial treatment when I joined another blog on-line, and after three years in real life when I attended a SPOHNC chapter meeting, about the same time I joined here in 2012.