Mike,
I just want to wish you well with your upcoming surgery! You’re right, your surgeons wouldn’t be doing surgery unless they thought it was curative.
Try not be be guided by any on-line stats. If i did, I probably wouldn’t be where I’m at according to some of them. Although I had a different cancer, tonsil with metasteses, it was 7 times, but the doctors never gave up on me! I’ll be going for my five year Scan soon, and hopefully considered cancer free, although I’ll be 10 years out from my original diagnosis.
Best wishes!