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Why cancer remission lives under the shadow of return

I've been in remission from cancer for three years but every headache or unusual symptom sends me into terror that it's coming back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Survival becomes its own form of vigilance, where the body can never again be trusted to simply exist without threat.

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