Patty, please use the search engine on the message board and look for PEG etc. You will find tons of comments and posts about the tube. Same for the odds of survival and why me quesstions. There has been plenty of discussion in the last year on this. The long and short of it all is that the statistics don't mean anything to you (or him), don't pay attention to them. The doctors are not avoiding answering the question about probabilities, there is no answer that is the right one for any given person, so they can't tell him anything that is accurate.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.