You are asking a question that there is no answers to.

Because we are all unique biological entities, what happens to one of us, may not happen to another person of the same age, sex, and stage at diagnosis. We have survivors that have posted here that are 10-15-22+ years out from treatment. Does that mean that you will be one of them? No one can tell you. Statistics give us hints, but even those do not apply to everyone.

If you spend a lot of time contemplating or worrying about this, you are wasting time that could be better spent enjoying each day that you have.Tomorrow is promised to no one. For all you know a Mac truck with your name on the bumper will come around the corner next week, and cancer will be a non-issue to you. Focus on today. Live it fully. Learn something new. Help a stranger. Enjoy the companionship of a great friend. Tell those you love that you do. Thinking about the odds of you being around in the future at some particular point in time is futile, is not knowable - not by doctors, statisticians, or anyone from any discipline of knowledge. If you believe in a supreme all knowing being, that entity may know, but there is no way for you to know what that entity knows. There is no absolute or even best guess answer, life is too random, let alone from the perspective of the cancer issue itself.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.