[quote=navkal]
Please let me know what precautions I have to take after this??[/quote]
Don't drink or smoke. When I read that 70% of people who drink after going through successfully beating it the first time, have it recur; I quit drinking entirely. (When it came back 18 months later, I restarted, but only since I'm incurable anyway at this point.)
[quote=navkal]I Have to live like this only with regular checkups and all?[/quote]
I strongly recommend that you adjust the way you look at your situation. You will always have to have check-ups of one kind or another, and that is simply your situation in life. Remind yourself that this is just like brushing your teeth and don't give it have any more thought you would give the need to brush your teeth regularly.
[quote=navkal]What are the chances or recurrence.[/quote]
No one can answer that. Since this is the case, don't give it a thought; it's not something that you can control.
[quote=navkal]Any treatment to avoid the same to come again.[/quote]
My strong advice is use this experience as a reminder that life is uncertain, fraught with danger of infinite variety, and completely unpredictable. This is the case with every human who has ever lived, and thus no different to you, or me, or anyone else.
Since the above is true, and it is not something that we can control, the path to a peaceful mind in dealing with it is to give it no thought, beyond that necessary to survive when disaster, such as a cancer diagnosis, does strike.
When disaster does strike, focus your thoughts on the immediate need to survive and identify and take those steps that you can control; such as getting proper medical (and/or other) treatment for the problem.
When I say, "focus your thoughts on..." that means that when your thoughts start to wander and begin to wonder about the future, you actively direct them away and back to focusing on what you can do and control.
When you don't do that and let your thoughts focus on what the outcome will be, you are inviting suffering and misery into your mind because no matter what you do, you cannot control that which is beyond your ability to control and frustration and fear are all that you will produce.
In every situation, there is usually an outcome that you would prefer and it's a good idea to plan for and take every action within your power to obtain that outcome. BUT, and this is huge, do not attach to that outcome.
If you heed this, you will have mental peace from the knowledge that you have done everything in your power to achieve the favorable outcome, and whatever the outcome actually is; you have no more power over that than you have over the weather. That is, none. Such is the nature of life. Live and Celebrate it!
My intro:
http://oralcancersupport.org/forums/ubbt...3644#Post16364409/09 - Dx OC Stg IV
10/09 - Chemo/3 Cisplatin, 40 rad
11/09 - PET CLEAN
07/11 - Dx Stage IV C. (Liver)
06/12 - PET CLEAN
09/12 - PET Dist Met (Liver)
04/13 - PET CLEAN
06/13 - PET Dist Met (Liver + 1 lymph node)
10/13 - PET - Xeloda ineffective
11/13 - Liver packed w/ SIRI-Spheres
02/14 - PET - Siri-Spheres effective, 4cm tumor in lymph-node
03/15 - Begin 15 Rads
03/24 - Final Rad! Woot!
7/27/14 Bart passed away. RIP!