What happens on the day when you finish all your prescribed cycles of chemotherapy and you are still alive?
Does it mean you have been cured?
I wish it was that simple.
Sometimes, cancers return.
How do you know if the chemotherapy has worked?
It has worked if you are cancer free for x number of years.
X = number of years as declared by your doctor. This number seems to vary with cancer type as far as I can tell.
So we've been told 5 years from today.
In popular cancer language, this waiting game is called - "Remission".
Sounds like a video game, right?
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And so while you are wondering about that, let me leave you with an incredibly courageous and wonderfully well compiled set of gifs on what a typical chemotherapy day looks like.
Go on, paste this link into your browser's address bar. No pain. No gain. http://thoughtcatalog.com/michelle-lamont/2013/05/super-fun-gif-guide-to-surviving-a-day-of-chemotherapy/
Does it mean you have been cured?
I wish it was that simple.
Sometimes, cancers return.
How do you know if the chemotherapy has worked?
It has worked if you are cancer free for x number of years.
X = number of years as declared by your doctor. This number seems to vary with cancer type as far as I can tell.
So we've been told 5 years from today.
In popular cancer language, this waiting game is called - "Remission".
Sounds like a video game, right?
****
And so while you are wondering about that, let me leave you with an incredibly courageous and wonderfully well compiled set of gifs on what a typical chemotherapy day looks like.
Go on, paste this link into your browser's address bar. No pain. No gain. http://thoughtcatalog.com/michelle-lamont/2013/05/super-fun-gif-guide-to-surviving-a-day-of-chemotherapy/
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