Thanks for that further encouragement Karen.

Ok, here's my first question. Cathy, you emntioned you might not have been a candidate for IMRT because your cacner was poorly differentiated. I thought I had some idea of how IMRT worked and differed from general field radiation but I don't have any clue how that relates to the differentiation of the cancer. And although I have some clue about how differentiation relates to how aggressive the cancer is, I guess I'm not really all that clear about what it means in general.

I've been doing a lot of other reading here about people's experience of radiation therapy. It sounds hellish but I'm convinced I can get through it if the opinion is that it will help my chances of survival.