cancer stem cells...negative receptors...recurrence...

Kkubsky

It will be 3 yrs in January since my dx. Haven't had any problems thankfully.....other than emotional ones which have gotten better. The fear of recurrence is still there although not as time consuming as earlier. I wish I could just put this behind me and not think about recurrence. My treatment is done for better or worse so why do I keep researching and reading?!?!?!?

Recently I was reading about cancer stem cells and how radiation does not kill them. So of course that is a new thing for me to obsess over. Then there is the recent article I read that has ER negative DCIS as a high risk factor for recurrence. Ugh. I wish I could just have the discipline to get off the internet and stop reading.

It is so odd that recurrence thoughts seem to come at random times, stay for a while, and then fade away till the next event....