I read a quote in an article today that is quite catchy and makes you think.
GregP_WN
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"We’ll never know if we’ve survived cancer until we die of something else. The trick is to make the time between now and then count."
If you think about it, we can be cancer free for years, then here it comes again. I was 18 years out from my second diagnosis when #3 came to visit. So we could be 75 and cancer free for 40 years, but are we really? Who knows, it may be there and just resting, waiting for the right time to ruin our life again. Or, it may just lay dormant and die with us. The good thing about that last one is that if that happens, then your cancer dies.
If you think about it, we can be cancer free for years, then here it comes again. I was 18 years out from my second diagnosis when #3 came to visit. So we could be 75 and cancer free for 40 years, but are we really? Who knows, it may be there and just resting, waiting for the right time to ruin our life again. Or, it may just lay dormant and die with us. The good thing about that last one is that if that happens, then your cancer dies.
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I guess we can never truly know if all of the cancer is gone if there are microscopic cells left in us.0
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Since 9/11, we have heard much about "sleeper cells." There is a theory, based on the behavior of cancer, that we may carry a sleeping cancer cell in our bodies, since, in a few cases, the exact same mutation will appear decades later. due to the utter complexity of our DNA, this likelihood seems extremely remote unless there is an inactive cancer cell somewhere, remaining dormant until activated by some unknown internal or external force.
Sounds scary until one considers that the cell remains static while medical science constantly advances. Advantage: us.0
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