Beth - My cousin was a nurse at Fairview Southdale for many decades - she just retired last year. Our kids were born there too.
Now, about cancer survival - this time ovarian cancer. My grandmother had it and lived to 93 and my mother also had ovarian cancer in the early 1990s and is still active now at 94. No one gave my Mom a "time line" but they did give one to my grandmother and I think she outlived it by somewhere around 30 years! And of course, there is a long list of survivors here in the OCF forum. Listen to what Brian said about "statistics". Keep us informed.