According to the American Cancer Society, the five-year-out survival rate for stage 3C colon cancer is 44% based on data collected between 1991 and 2000. If I had been stage 4, the rate drops to 8%. Thank god we cought it before it went to stage 4! They say that since then, treatments have improved and so these numbers should be going up. And there’s also factors they haven’t broken out such as age, general health, and complications. So I believe my chances are much better than the 44% predicted, but it does give one pause.
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Wow Ray, that sounds bleak, but here are a few statistics that sound worse.
Chance of death from…..
-falling out of a 50 story window, 100%
-having your face ripped off by a chimp, 95%
-eating McDonalds for every meal, 100%
-cement shoes in the river, 100%
-Plane crash from 30,000 feet, 7 minutes later 100%
-Lions den, 100%
-Great White attack, 99%. Roy Scheider survived.
-Burning at the Stake, 100%
Common denomenator, all of those people (except Roy) said,”man I wish I had that guys cancer instead.”
Stay Strong. We’ll have a lot to laugh about in 5+ years.
ken
Comment by ken turner — 2009.03.10 @ 3:28 pm
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Comment by Dennis Pyritz, RN — 2009.06.08 @ 3:06 pm