Kaber:Tell Lisa to visit this site. It is very informative regarding survival percentages, recurrances, size, etc. I was a stage IV victim of neck cancer discovered in 10/03. My primary site was initially unknown which gave me a 15% chance of survival. However, as time and treatments went on, directed by excellent medical professionals, my survival persent grew to about 85%. I recently completed treatment, which was surgery, called a modified radical neck dissection, after 35 treatments of radiation and 3 chemotherapy treatments. My labs came back after the surgery totally negative. Not a drop of cancer left and this after a stage IV, 3.5cm tumor in II lymph node. So no matter the type of cancer, your friends husband can beat this with a positive attitude and a good cancer center medical team. This also includes dentists and whoever else is needed to get the right things done to maximize treatments. Interestingly, my wife did all of the looking on this site as I did not want to know what was coming. I knew I could take it day-to-day, but not if I had to anticipate what it was going to be like 7, 10, 20 weeks in advance. I didn't start reading this until my radiation and chemotherapy was completed and I was waiting for the surgery (which cannot be done until at least 6 weeks after rad). So Lisa's husband may not want to look at this site until later, but Lisa needs to in order to know the importance of all of the treatments and pound it into his head if needed. I needed my wife to keep me on the right path a lot, but could not face the future knowing what was coming. How blessed I was to have her with me through this, but after 24 years of marriage, I knew that going in. At any rate, Lisa should check this site out to help her husband get the best possible treatment.
Regards,
Kirk Georgia