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No one can tell you how long you have to live after a cancer diagnosis. The most that doctors can do is give you an educated guess based on their experience. There are many factors involved in the fight against cancer, including the patient's will to live. Miracles happen every day.
Accurate statistics are available from the NCI (National Cancer Institute), but, *as a rule*, most head-and-neck cancers kill fairly quickly (within 5 years) even WITH treatment; mainly because of 1) the type of cancer cells involved, and 2) the cancer's proximity to the brain. Its similar in speed to pancreatic cancer--which is basically almost *always* lethal within 5 years.
Now, if you're considering surgery, consider this: The surgery leaves you disfigured and often in pain for the rest of your life anyway. Want proof? Have a look at Google for some pictures of "treated" (surgically) patients--they are awful, and, frankly, the patient will need to be "intervened upon" fairly frequently--you generally lose the ability to speak, often to eat (so you're fed through a tube), and all of those "treated" patients need psychiatric help because of the demoralization of one's appearance in public.
So, pick your battles wisely--if you're NOT willing to go through all that, then, you can just choose to be put "into-the-chemical ether" and feel NOTHING once death rolls around.
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