 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 67 | I also never use the term remission. It implies that it has been beaten back but that in some way that is a temporary thing, "you just don't know", is the inflection that I get from the word remission. Cancer being a genetic disease - is a process that is so small and complex that we can't say cured. Most hospitals and doctors will declare you NED (no evidence of disease) at the end of treatment. That's really a clean slate. Or I say to people that I have been cancer free since XXXX.
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.
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