When am I considered cancer free?

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  • valeriekd
    valeriekd Member Posts: 287
    edited October 2009

    I like abbadoodles response - w/ 1 in 8 of us contracting this disease -who knows? best to live one day at a time (for me) and not get into tomorrow - can not cope w/ what has not happened.The only thing to cope w/ post treatment are current tx symptoms and prevention - other than that I think high anxiety gives the disease too much of a life of its own. And yes, we have ALL fought the good fight!  God bless, Valerie

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  • vashti55
    vashti55 Member Posts: 15
    edited October 2009
    I choose to think that the day of my surgery is my anniversary since there wasn't any node involvement.  My surgeon doesn't use the phrase "cancer free"  she uses "no evidence of cancer".  I also want to take one day at a time and focus on treatment, preventative measures, and quality of life right now.  I know of one woman who had her breast removed without any additional treatment and went for 8 years before a recurrence in the other breast.  She had the other breast removed along with chemo and hormone therapy.  She is doing well.  In the meantime, 2 of her sisters have died from non- cancer related illness.  We can never tell what will happen in our bodies and breast cancer isn't the only disease that we have to be concerned about, so we just have to try to improve our health habits to deter all diseases.  Best wishes to all survivors.
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  • London-Virginia
    London-Virginia Member Posts: 851
    edited October 2009

    What nice people on this thread.  All of us are struggling to find the words and concepts to enable us to keep moving ahead.  All of us are finding different things, relevant to ourselves, the timing in the journey etc.  Really, hats off to all of us!   (no chemo pun intended....)

    I wish there was some way that people that are around us had some sense of the complexity of our daily struggle to keep on shining.........

    Hope you all have  sparkling weekend ladies ..xxxxxxxxxx

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