 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | According to the 2002 report of the American Joint Committee for Cancer (AJCC) Oropharynx, 5 year survival rates for stage II are about 57.3%.
This doesn't factor in your general health, health habits, sex, age or ethnicity. We have had many discussion about statistics and it is best to ignore them.
I am not going to become a number until I am dead.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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