Hello Nancy,

Welcome to The Oral Cancer Foundation! You won't find a more informative site on oral cancer than this one. Your fears and questions are normal.
The numbers of survival mean nothing to you. He will either make it or not. As was posted earlier some stage 1 & 2 lose the battle and some stage 3 & 4 beat it. There is no logic to this horrible diaease.
I also had a stage 4 tonsil cancer and am coming up on three years.
Ask any question you can think of and someone with similier treatment will respond. You can also use the search engine at the top of the page to read the older postings. Just about any thing you can think of will have been discussed in the past.

Best of luck as your husband starts his journey to recovery.

Danny Boy