While the word cure is tossed around quite a bit, technically, right now, there is no "cure" for any cancer. This is partly because we don't even completely understand the mechanism that causes it, though we can describe in detail the events that take place. So when we have had this happen to us, for whatever genetic reason our systems allowed it to get a foothold past our immune system, what happens is through our slash, burn, and poison technologies we can sometimes eradicate "evidence" of it in our bodies. But the fact remains that the genetic reason that it occurred in the first place may still be with us. So the term remission was adopted, since there is always a chance that it will come back for the same reason that it came to us in the first place. This is an issue of semantics. There was a really long thread on this about 18 months ago I think, and the search engine will find it if you look under words like remission, and cure. For sure after five years, most people on are on the good side of statistical probabilities, but if you have read many of the posts here, we are not statistics