My sweetie and me read a local on-line forum, and granted, there are a few provocative trolls involved, but this one threw me into a tailspin of frustration! I believe Z just tried to ride along with it, though he was sleepless and fearful that week, more than he has been in a while. Someone posted a table of stats from The journal Clinical Oncology in December 2004 (Morgan, G. et al. (2004). Clinical Oncology 16, 549e560)saying: �The results of this study were astonishing, showing that chemotherapy has an average 5-year survival success rate of just over 2 percent for ALL cancers!�. Well, ack ack and ick. We both are smart cookies, trained in stats and all, and yet�.sheesh! I know stats can be manipulated and so I went and read the actual study and I think there are some �holes� in the way the poster summarized the info, and yet I am having a hard time putting this succinctly. I guess I am just needing to blow off some steam because this REALLY pushed my buttons about how vulnerable we all, who are involved with cancer, are to the ravages of fear and even guilt. The �everything �natural� is better� crowd are hard to argue with and normally I wouldn�t bother, except I did. Help me out, guys, I�m craving more ammo. My love did chemo and radiation and surgery in the prescribed manner and my research says, based on his diagnosis, his prognosis IS really good. I know I know I KNOW we never REALLY know�but come on!