Hi Charm,

I just had my 4 year post-treatment check-up last week.

I said to my ENT that I expected that when I pass on, it will be from this disease.

He was rather taken aback by my comment, and he told me that in his opinion, for all intents and purposes I am cured and have a very small chance of recurrence (he threw out a number of something like 1 or 2 %). He said that after the first 2 years of survival, the odds go to about 5% in the third year, then drop to the 1 or 2% odds thereafter. The caveat was that I was not a smoker.

At any rate, the 5 year milestone was to him more or less moot.

So, I don't know. I really don't worry about it too much, but of course would be mortified if I found a lump somewhere.

Best wishes,

Chris