Length of time cancer free?

Same here Mama...surgery date 3/20/09..that is when that freaking tumor was removed..

Not sure about the term cancer free..but I was free of the cancerous tumor..hoping that chemo/rads took care of anything else still hanging around

Here we use date of diagnosis as a landmark.  Two and a half years now and feeling pretty positive about a lot more.

My tip: Do something you really want to do once a year to commemorate your anniversary and give you something to look forward to instead of looking back.  What is behind us does not matter.  We need to get through the bad to get on with the good.  And if we turn out to be unlucky down the road, at least we didn't sit here waiting for bad luck to find us.  Get out now and take your personal version of a gondola ride.    

for me - the date is when i completed treatment....

2 yr 9 months since dx ....although my onc wants me to count after my last chemo treatment so then it would be 2yr 1 month

Sometimes I use the date of first symptoms, that's what DH doctor used when he had his last reoccurance.  Sometimes I use the date of my diagnosis & other times I use the date I finished treatment.  I don't think their is a hard & fast rule.

It's been 3 1/2 years, survivor Novemeber 10, 2007 (first symptom)

It's been almost 3 1/2 years since my diagnosis, Jan 10, 2008

It's been 2 1/2 years, NED November 10, 2008

I find it interesting how I have these reoccuraning dates. 

Love & prayers. NJ

3 years and 3 months since diagnosis.  That's what my oncologist said she uses.  Curlylocks....so good to hear of your over 5 years!!!!!!!!  Can't wait to join you.

I use my surgery date.  I thought the dates, like being cancer free 5 years out, were based on how long the studies for a paticular cancer were performed and not an actual date the cancer could come back. If a study was done for ten years, lets say, then you have a ten year survival rate because nothing was studied after the ten years so your survival rate could be much longer.  Am I very wrong on this?  Thanks.

Agada

For insurance companies the count begins the day you finish all treatment - I've been trying to get long term care insurance, and that's what they tell me when they turn me down.

Hi sister, I am 13 years past since diagnosis, and doing fine.  

Gentle hugs, Shirlann 

Hi Shirlann..again..thanks soooo much for coming back on here now and then and being our support...we NEED you!

And you wear pink..thanks to you also!    You guys are sweet to take time out for us!