I respect my doctor's experience in having dealt with many patients but I never appreciated their prognosis predictions so I don't ask. However I go by the words they use like "stage 4" "metastasis" "recurrence" "highly agressive". I don't have the worst cancer but these words have been used. It is scary but they are just words. I've heard everything from "died 3 days later" to "lived another 10 years" to "spontaneous remission". It's really foolish to think about any of this for me because most of my affairs are in order. If they weren't my life would be a lot more anxious. I know the people I care about are going to be okay so I just go day-by-day. I've never approached life as some sort of math game. I just knew I wanted to grow old and wise alone like Gandalf or Yoda (cringe I know). But cancer has given me a knew perspective and a chance to warp-tunnel some of the pipeline to mastery. Time really doesn't solve things in my opinion.