teacher2017 wrote:I'd love to know when you consider yourself NED. Who tells you this? I just had a mass removed and would love to think I'm cancer-free but know that may not be the case. When do you know?
teacher2017 wrote:I'd love to know when you consider yourself NED. Who tells you this? I just had a mass removed and would love to think I'm cancer-free but know that may not be the case. When do you know?
Partial Remission vs. Complete Remission
If you're in partial remission, it may mean you can take a break from treatment as long as the cancer doesn't begin to grow again. Complete remission means that tests, physical exams, and scans show that all signs of your cancer are gone. Some doctors also refer to complete remission as “no evidence of disease (NED).”Jul 22, 2016
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/remission-what-does-it-mean
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Understanding the Difference Between Cure and Remission
Cure means that there are no traces of your cancer after treatment and the cancer will never come back.
Remission means that the signs and symptoms of your cancer are reduced. Remission can be partial or complete. In a complete remission, all signs and symptoms of cancer have disappeared.
If you remain in complete remission for 5 years or more, some doctors may say that you are cured. Still, some cancer cells can remain in your body for many years after treatment. These cells may cause the cancer to come back one day. For cancers that return, most do so within the first 5 years after treatment. But, there is a chance that cancer will come back later. For this reason, doctors cannot say for sure that you are cured. The most they can say is that there are no signs of cancer at this time.
Because of the chance that cancer can come back, your doctor will monitor you for many years and do tests to look for signs of cancer’s return. They will also look for signs of late side effects from the cancer treatments you received
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/diagnosis-staging/prognosis
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JJH wrote:teacher2017 wrote:I'd love to know when you consider yourself NED. Who tells you this? I just had a mass removed and would love to think I'm cancer-free but know that may not be the case. When do you know?
Partial Remission vs. Complete Remission
If you're in partial remission, it may mean you can take a break from treatment as long as the cancer doesn't begin to grow again. Complete remission means that tests, physical exams, and scans show that all signs of your cancer are gone. Some doctors also refer to complete remission as “no evidence of disease (NED).”Jul 22, 2016
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/remission-what-does-it-mean
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Understanding the Difference Between Cure and Remission
Cure means that there are no traces of your cancer after treatment and the cancer will never come back.
Remission means that the signs and symptoms of your cancer are reduced. Remission can be partial or complete. In a complete remission, all signs and symptoms of cancer have disappeared.
If you remain in complete remission for 5 years or more, some doctors may say that you are cured. Still, some cancer cells can remain in your body for many years after treatment. These cells may cause the cancer to come back one day. For cancers that return, most do so within the first 5 years after treatment. But, there is a chance that cancer will come back later. For this reason, doctors cannot say for sure that you are cured. The most they can say is that there are no signs of cancer at this time.
Because of the chance that cancer can come back, your doctor will monitor you for many years and do tests to look for signs of cancer’s return. They will also look for signs of late side effects from the cancer treatments you received
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/diagnosis-staging/prognosis
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teacher2017 wrote:... Hoping pathology report is good...
Andrea1976 wrote:That's NOT truth. From the info you have shared. You might still be stage 1 and completely cured by surgery alone. It seems that it might had been a polyp gone cancerous. 95% stage 1 is cured by surgery. Even stage 3 about 50% is cured by surgery alone if I remember correctly.
Andrea1976 wrote:That's a great news! Polyps are usually early cancers. I also had a polyp but it was only cancerous at the very top. It was completely removed during colonoscopy. It was a mushroom type / pedunculated. Yours was probably sessil because otherwise it would had been removed during colonoscopy. Unless it was there for very long time time and the stalk of the pedunculated polyp wasn't there anymore. Hopefully yours is still stage 1.
teacher2017 wrote:Andrea1976 wrote:That's a great news! Polyps are usually early cancers. I also had a polyp but it was only cancerous at the very top. It was completely removed during colonoscopy. It was a mushroom type / pedunculated. Yours was probably sessil because otherwise it would had been removed during colonoscopy. Unless it was there for very long time time and the stalk of the pedunculated polyp wasn't there anymore. Hopefully yours is still stage 1.
I don't think it is. It was large as an orange. Dr said I had it a very long time. I just had a resection. Recovering nicely but I'm still so scared.
Andrea1976 wrote:Polyps can get very big. My was huge. 2 cm stalk and 3 cm head. The cancer was 0.6 cm on the top of the head. I didn't have any symptoms and suddenly started to bleed so I had colonoscopy. I think my polyp could had been there for 10 years from what I have read. My kids 13 and almost 16 will have to start colonoscopy st their 20s.
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