I don't like remission either. To me that means it's only gone at the moment, and you're waiting for it to come back and bite you again, you know, that it isn't really gone, it's just inactive. After what I've been through I am not about to believe that all the grays of radiation, the drugs, and the surgery left it in an inactive state, remissive... We kicked the crap out of it, rid my body of it, and it's nowhere to be found. I like "cancer free".

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.