First Jen, You shouldn't be concerned about statistics. If you saw them it would either scare you or give you hope (depending on if you are a glass half full or half empty kind of person) The fact is you have cancer. The fact is you may survive. The fact is you may not. Doctors live in the world of statistics because it is how they determine how to treat you. Beyond that they cannot know the final outcome of your illness. For me this was not always a comfortable realization.

You will be a good patient, ask all the questions you want of your doctors, nurses and other medical staff. They often speak in the trade terms and acronyms but if you ask they should take all the time to explain that you need. If they won't do it then complain loudly (they hate that) Generally a polite question will get the answer you need. Beyond that you sure can ask here for medical term to be translated. Usually there is someone that will be able to help. I don't know of a Cliff's notes (but it's a good idea). In addition the search function here at the OCF will yield a great deal of information. You are able to search the forum here or go to the OCF home page and search from there.

Besides that searching the web with any of the various search engines (Google etc) will usually come up with something.

I agree, the number of bottles and containers of medications was a sight.