❝ There are statistics about 5 and 10 year survival.
❝ The older I get the more I understand there are less days in front of me than behind me, so get on with life.

All very true and wise. I'll just add that 5- and 10-year survival stats are trailing indicators (significantly so). When you see a 5- or 10-year survival stat, what it usually means is "If you'd been first diagnosed in 2005 or 2010, your odds of surviving 5 and 10 years would have been X." It takes that long to get from initial selection of participants to study execution to study results to the secondary lit reviews and research papers most specialists cite, even if their papers have very recent dates.

Does that mean our odds are always going to be improving? Of course not. But over all, cancer treatments have changed so much over the past 5–10 years that you need to take most existing survival stats with a whole shaker full of salt. In 10 years or so, we'll know what our survival odds were (and I wouldn't bet against our being there to see them).