Terri

[quote]Husband is very leary of starting radiation....We still don't know how radiation will increase his survival rate for this rare cancer but hope to have answers on Monday before we start.[/quote]

I'd be leary too if the doctors had put it that way. The important thing for your husband to remember is that the one and only survival rate that matters to him is his own and that is always either 100% or zero. In my case, without radiation, I was told it would be zero, so I was very motivated to tough it out regardless of what happened even though there was also zero guarantee that the radiation would work (and it didn't the first time around).

Point out to your husband that almost all of the posters here have had radiation and came through it, some of us twice even. My recommendation is to ask all of your very good questions in this post to the radiation oncologists
Keep the Faith
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