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#9542     02-11-2007 01:15 AM      |       Joined:  Feb 2005  Posts: 7    Member   |      OP      Member    Joined:  Feb 2005  Posts: 7  |    Good morning, A Bay Area newspaper is running a series of articles written by a recent survivor at:    http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/16669816.htm This looks to be a good first person account of treatment and survivor issues.  Please have a read.  I had one concern about the first article in the series and that was the use of the word cured and the implication that after a year the cancer has been completely defeated (no mention of the 5 years of purgatory where recurrence has a high probability). Have a read, James         
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