When I was diagnosed, my local team was professional enough not to tell me my statistics. It's irresponsible, plain and simple. As a numbers guy I pushed for the information because I thought that it would help me make the right decisions, when my RO gave me the perfect answer: "Eric, your percentages are either 100% or zero, you are either going to make it through this or you won't. It all depends on how YOUR body responds to the treatment."

SEER will only tell the Dr's so much...and even then it will tell them ABSOLUTELY nothing about Chuck and how his body will respond...or about Chuck's surgery, or surgeon, or immune system etc, etc... SEER will tell the Dr that out of 100 people that were similar to Chuck's demographic, staging etc, 80 of them responded a certain way, which still tells him nothing about Chuck or Chuck's specific situation.

Of course you can always ask the families of stage 1 victims that died what they think about the 90% chance their loved one had to live...yeah that should drive home the point of percentages.