Caroline Geraghty, senior cancer information nurse at Cancer Research UK, told the PA news agency: “Remission means, after you’ve been treated for cancer, there is no evidence that there’s any cancer left.”.
“I think, if you’ve particularly had a difficult time with treatment, or you’ve gone through a lot of treatment – and it’s not just that physical impact it can have on you and all the side effects of the treatment that you’ve had to go through, but that turmoil it causes in your mind and the anxiety and the worry and the stress it causes you and your family and your loved ones – to hear the word remission kind of gives you, I suppose, a deep breath of relief.”.
Asked about what it means for patients, she said: “I think for many people it’s relief, it’s relief to hear that word and for the doctor to explain to them, and possibly to show them a scan picture which shows the cancer is not there – that’s not appropriate for everyone, but for some people, it might be visualised for them on the scan, and to see that means so much.
According to Cancer Research UK, remission means that there is no sign of cancer in a person’s body.
There is a lot of uncertainty after cancer treatment, which can be troubling for those affected and their loved ones.
