 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Karen,
Some of the VA hospitals are very good, like the one in Palo Alto, California, but they tend to be inconsistent.
My so called statistical odds were between 28 and 38% five year survival, depending on whether you consider the stage III or IV. My doctor actually handed me the AJCC page with the numbers on it. I made a decision that I would be in the survivor group. So far so good...
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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