Alas wishing, as I'm sure you know, doesn't make it so. My recommendation - and I'm confident just about everyone here will agree - is that you listen to your doctors. You're going to some of the best ones in the country at those institutions and they know about cancer.

Smoking and drinking are hardly the only route to H&N cancer. It may well be that like me you're HPV positive. You can read up on the connection here at OCF.

I'm not denigrating the young woman who made that film. I admire her positive outlook. I think you'll find that most of us here share that sentiment.

Eating healthy food, exercising and generally trying to live a stress free life are all wonderful adjuncts to real medicine. Which is what you need right now.

I wish you the best of luck!
David 2

(PS couldn't agree more with your signature: finally feeling up to it, I got myself a rather large shelter pup back in September; we needed each other)