Hi Gino - Of course whatever you do is a very personal and very serious decision but, from a statistics perspective, my husband and I both would see 7 percent better chance as pretty significant. I know when John's doctors talked to him about adding chemo to the radiation they cited a solid 8 percent greater rate of a positive impact as their rationale for doing chemo plus radiation.

As my sister-in-law, who's head of medical research at a university in Australia pointed out, 8 percent means 8 more people out of 100 do better with chemo and radiation than radiation alone at my husband's stage of tonsil cancer. And, she said, one of those people might just be John.

Our motto was "blast the bastard" with everything possible. Of course he was diagnosed at a much later stage than you.

Mary