mommapez, maybe my presence here will give you more hope as you can see from my signature below that my tonsil cancer was a pretty advanced one and if my doctor had given me a 50/50 chance of survival when I was diagnosed, I would have been more relieved at that time. No, I was told that my chance of survival was far less than 50%. But here I am, 5+years in remission, doing great, travelling here and there and Joanna can tell you that I am not lying, right? Forget the threatening statistics and just do the best to fight the battle.

Karen