HER2 Support Group Forums - Another "cancer free" celebration.....

http://www.spinner.com/2011/01/28/di...breast-cancer/

Note the wise commenter:

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Chryssieat 1-29-2011

I find the headline here totally misleading. I too wasdiagnosed with breats cancer, had surgery etc last year and yes, I have a mammogram and its not detecting a detactable breast cancer and yes, I have an MRI which is not detecting any cancer cells in my body - BUT can I claim to be cancer free? No. This is because mammograms can miss detecting a high pervcentage of tumours especially in dense breast tissue - up to 60%. And breast cancer can spread from a single cell and pop up anywhere else in the body - withing a year, 2, 3, 4, 5 or een 10 years later. So I have to be realistic and consider my cancer not "gone" but undetectable at the moment for many reasons, only one of which might be that I have beaten it. Its a systemtic disease I'm afraid. Its undetectable and/or in remission, but I am certain rogue cancer cells remain in the body. So i find headline like this one only months after someone has ended their treatment hopelessly wrong.