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The counting starts at the surgery of breast cancer removal. The DX date has no significance in this case since one can discover early or late, depending on the judgement of the person who makes judgement on any palpable lesion. Some BC was not found by conventional methods. On the other hand, surgery date is a definite mark where a known source of BC was removed. If there were stray cancer cells lodging somewhere, it will take time for the cancer cells to multiply and show symptoms. This process will take time: thus the time factor comes into play. For people doing various defense steps, such as hormone therapy (arimidex, for instance), fatty acids balance, curcumine, etc. the body keeps on killing new cancer cells (which occur to all people) as a normal defense mechanism. Of course, recent info on certain cancer cells which become invisible to body self mechanism is quite disturbing.