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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Northeast Ohio
Posts: 245
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Northeast Ohio
Posts: 245
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When does "remission" occur?
I was asked a question yesterday that I'm not totally sure of.
A friend, inquiring as to how my son's doing with his cancer survivorship,
asked me "is he in remission?".
I'm not totally sure how to answer the question, so I got into conversation with another cancer survivor later tonite and she just kinda chuckled and said that it's sorta a "slang word" as a person is never considered to be "100% guaranteed of never getting the cancer again".
Some say it's whenever the bloodwork becomes into the normal range, others say it's after one yr, others say it's after 5 yrs.
Anyways, my son's doing fine...other than an allergy problem right now cause of all this spring pollen.
Marilyn
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