Statistics can be source of discouragement and/or confusion. I've hesitated posting what my ENT told me because I don't want to discourage anyone unnecessarily.

I'm with Mark on this - don't really want to ask 'cause the answer might scare me too much. Even though I never asked directly about the chance of recurrence, my doc offered some probabilities.

In case this might be helpful, he told me that if 250 people had the diagnosis that I had (T1 with positive margins treated with surgery and 35 radiation treatments), 100 would have a recurrence. Of that 100, 70 would have it in the first year, 20 in the second and the remaining 10 spread over the next 3 years.

That was for me. Does it apply to anyone else? Don't know. - Sheldon