My "choices" regarding treatment spelt out

I'm afraid I'm one of those "go hard or go home" ones, who've "chosen" to chuck everything at this horror in my life. Six months of chemo (clocking up 56 days in hospital due to horrendous side effects), followed by The Big Chop (both boobs), followed by continuing Herceptin for another six months, followed by the next decade of hormone therapy. I too took a close look at stastics. I've used this analogy before in another post, but I feel it's still relevant (at least to me). I used to be (in my distant and vigorous youth), a very active skydiver with 1634 jumps under my belt. If there were (theoretically) two different types of rigs for students, some with reserve parachutes.....big bulky, heavy and cumbersome. and others without reserves...smaller, neater, lighter and easier to wear, and a first jumper asked me which I would choose, given that 99% of main parachutes open without problems each and every time...I would still strongly advise them to take the one with the reserve. Who the hell would want to be plummeting to earth with a bundle of tangled washing above you, and then think...shit...I should have chosen the one with a reserve!! As it happens, in all those jumps, I only ever had one reserve ride, but I would never have stepped out that door from 12 000 feet without one....guaranteed. So my question is this, does that extra 16% chance 60 versus 76 make enough of a difference to you? Would you step out of a plane without a reserve if 16% of mains didn't open? Because, for me, my chemo was my reserve parachute....perhaps unnecessary but chosen all the same.