Will is currently looking for long-term survival stories on internet forums that relate directly to his diagnosis (Diffuse Large B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma). There don't appear to be many, or rather, many that show a long-term, no-relapse rate post-chemotherapy for the first diagnosis.
Now, I know that it would be fallacious to assume then that the prospects over the next five to ten years are pretty bleak. I know this. But trying to work out a way to find the answers Will so obviously needs when faced with pretty much no evidence for what he wants to hear doesn't make for pleasant conclusions, however lacking in logic.
So, I guess if there aren't statistics out there, we need to get to finding a way to put them out there. Whether there is a site or source that we've missed, for example, or whether we need to start a success stories site specifically for long-term recovery from lyphoma/cancer, perhaps there is something we can do. If Will needs this kind of information, I imagine that there will be other people out there looking for it too. Even though statistics may not mean anything - unfortunately, diagnoses such as these are pretty individual; everyone will be different and so prognosis is always bespoke and uncertain to some extent - if they help even a little, there should be some way to find them.
