There are some cancer patients that have been told or were told that they only had days, weeks, months, maybe years to live; and, there are those cancer patients who struggle with cancer for several years and lose the battle to that cancer or lose the battle to some other disease because they have/had no immunity.
And then... there are other patients, like myself, who have been fortunate enough to live with cancer for over a decade and have been told by their Oncologist that there is a good possibility that they will die of old age... but this news is always followed with a CAVEAT of: your cancer could become aggressive and there might not be anything we can do to stop it.
What do you think a comment like that does to one's anxiousness?
In my case, I am fighting Lymphoma and Melanoma and may soon be diagnosed with Prostate Cancer... so, my mental outlook is constantly being challenged and while my cancers seem to be suppressed (THIS DOES NOT MEAN REMISSION), I am under a constant fear of what might happen should this change...
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