I don't understand the significance or benefit of categorising the stages. Survivors are breathing, non-survivors are not. We may still have cancer, detected or not. It may come back, we may get it somewhere else in the future. But I'll share one thing I've learned from my experience.

I do not wait for the next checkup, the next PET. I do not wait for a doctor to tell me its ok to live for another 3 months until I see him again. I don't know if I'll get sick again, but I will never look back from a hospital bed at days like these when I'm healthy and wish I had done something more. I make a conscious effort not to waste days and I'm grateful for being here. That attitude does wonders for shaking off Mondayitis, because there were so many Mondays I would have given anything to be well enough to see my friends at work.