Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cancer is eradicated

Re:Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cance... by da_chicken on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:33PM (#17230680)

This is true of any cancer treatment. You're never cured of cancer. You just go into remission. The 5 year mark has historically been the point when complete remission is deemed a cure, but that doesn't mean recurrence is impossible.

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Re:Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cance... by tialaramex on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:18PM (#17233138)

At the limit though this argument works for broken legs too. Oh sure the leg seems better now, but it could break again. I think with a broken leg you'd accept that's just a different break, even if it's the same leg.

I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma many years ago, in my final follow up they said the radiation damage means there's a higher than normal chance I'd get some entirely different cancer later in life, but as to Hodgkin's there's no difference from the rest of the population. If I get Hodgkin's again it isn't because the treatment stopped working, it just means the same or similar freak DNA change happened. Like if I broke the same leg again.

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Re:Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cance... by civilitty on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:51PM (#17232319)

Even then, don't oncologists highly recommend an annual screening for the rest of your life?

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Re:Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cance... by da_chicken on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:00PM (#17232408)

Periodically, I think. I don't know how often. Unfortunately, everybody I know who has had cancer is no longer around.

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Re:Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cance... by tutanchamun on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:53PM (#17233346)

I don't know about other cancer types but around here they do that for non-hodgkin-lyphoma. The first two years after remisson the screening is every 3 months. Year 3-4 every 6 months and year 5+ once every year.

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