The reason this is not in the site is there are no good studies that look at this. There are many confounding factors to every individuals disease. Staging for one, cause for another. Add collateral health issues and that really muddies the water. Age changes everything.

You get the idea, and I could have made this list longer. The fact is that there are no statistics that I would put up on the OCF site that are truly accurate given the uniqueness of each persons disease and personal biology.

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.