Brian,

You made an excellent point regarding the often times comment of the doc delivering the Dx to the tobacco using patient. This is exactly what my ENT did in April of '06 when handing down my verdict. I told her that I obviously caused the cancer from almost 40 years of smoking and she tried to shift gears. She said "don't kick yourself while you are down. 8% of all base of tongue cancer victims have never used tobacco". Yeah, at first that sparked hope until it sunk in that. . .DUH!. . .that means that 92% of BoT victims were/are tobacco users. A little voice then told me, "Bill, do the math".

Bill D.