Thanks, Ed. My husband's cancer was also Stage IV tongue-base scc (T3N2cM0).

Actually, I have had pretty good experience with cancer survival. My father had an ocular melanoma, and he died of heart failure twenty-five years later - having also beaten prostate cancer in the meantime! About twenty years ago, my mother had thyroid cancer and I had cervical cancer, and we're both still alive.

Don't know if it's good luck or good genes. We come from sturdy peasant stock. But even though this disease is horrible, and sometimes the treatment seems even worse, there is hope.

Good luck with your continued recovery!

Barb