Charm,

You are blowing this phrase out of proportion, even after I was kind enough to explain the often quoted phrase in a subsequent post, and you keep quoting me out of context also. What I said as a sign off to a paragraph answering the poster's question about chemo was, "You basically have one shot at curing this, and should give it your best." BASICALLY, meaning for the most part, in essence, fundamentally, and did not say, as you menton, "Unless they get the cancer the very first time, then they have no other shot at curing this" and "Only one shot at curing this" amongst others. Do I believe, and I know first hand with 5 different treatments, that recurrences may be treatable, but there are other factors involved, and sometimes they may not be able, can be more difficult to treat the 2nd time, and patients may have lesser options, loss of QOL, etc., but this was not the answer to the question, just a salutation to the poster, but an important one, and I should not have to write a book to explain every single word, which would need to be written by a doctor, which I'm not, and that does not seem to satisfy you.

From your responses, you are implying that recurrences are always curable, and are underplaying the importance of the initial treatment to "newbies" with you being the prime example, which is a falsehood, and scary for one to believe.

Don't get me started with your PET scan scary stories, aka PSSS lol.