@marshmallowjones I wanted to say hello. I don't have cancer and I can't share any medical advice, but I had an aunt with a bad lymphatic cancer and she should have only lived a year, but she got much more than that, somewhere around 10 years. She had a positive attitude that she was going to beat cancer. She had quality of life. Her first husband had passed away, and she got married again. I made her wedding cake. She believed with every part of her being that she could do it and she taught me a lesson about the power patients have over their health and healing if they embrace it, make intelligent choices, and believe in a positive outcome.

Have you heard of the book called "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch? He had terminal cancer and wrote this book about his journey. He also believed in his fight and got more years than his doctors promised. The premise of the book came from a college writing assignment to write a "last lecture" to say what is important to you and what has meaning to your life and to write it as if you were dying. His honesty about living is very uplifting.

I hope some other patients can share some relevant experience with you.