If you hear those words from your doctor, it will normally be a knell of doom. It will mean that your illness is so far gone that it is untreatable and that you will probably die soon
So I will always remember the moment my oncologist said those words to me. Fortunately, in my case he followed with the words: "You are in complete remission". He meant that I was so completely cured that there was nothing left for him to treat
People will probably congratulate me for being so lucky. But it was nothing to do with luck. What happened was that I was treated by an eminent professional in Australia's private health system who arranged for me to get advanced treatment as part of a clinical trial of a new medicine. I was the beneficiary of specialized knowledge, not luck.
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