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Hi Dawn
I think you are starting to understand the difference as the terms are usually used. If someone says they are cancer free--well, I would understand it as NED. But if they want to state it as "cancer free" then that is up to them, I wouldn't argue. In remission would usually mean NED. Just new terminology. Since this cancer is sneaky, there doesn't seem to be a time limit for its return, but we know that after two years then five years, the chances of its return greatly deminishes. With the treatment you are getting as stage 3 A? is it? (With 3 b it could be a little more complicated) You can look forward to NED--whenever anyone wants to call it--ask your doc--and remain NED. He may prefer to look at it from a different perspective. I have never asked my doctor if I was NED. He just says it isn't going to come back. That is how he wants to see it--and so do I!
You are almost through the hard part of treatment. :-)
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