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your profile says your initial stage was stage 3, but you started out at stage 1?

your profile says your initial stage was stage 3, but you started out at stage 1?

i meant Josh's profile

What are you, the cancer police? You fact checking my profile? Listen, I’m stage 4 and a half, but I’ll fight your cancer ass right now. I hope you realize that I’m kidding 🙂 Seriously, I was stage 1 at my diagnosis (had a mole removed, and then a very minor surgery), and then the cancer didn’t come back for 8 years (in the same spot). And then 4 years ago, all the real exciting cancer stuff started. Just seemed simpler to skip the mole removal and 8 year gap, however, sleuth that you are, you shed light on my evil, devious plans 🙂 Gadzooks, foiled again!

What are you, the cancer police? You fact checking my profile? Listen, I’m stage 4 and a half, but I’ll fight your cancer ass right now. I hope you realize that I’m kidding 🙂 Seriously, I was stage 1 at my diagnosis (had a mole removed, and then a very minor surgery), and then the cancer didn’t come back for 8 years (in the same spot). And then 4 years ago, all the real exciting cancer stuff started. Just seemed simpler to skip the mole removal and 8 year gap, however, sleuth that you are, you shed light on my evil, devious plans 🙂 Gadzooks, foiled again!

What are you, the cancer police? You fact checking my profile? Listen, I’m stage 4 and a half, but I’ll fight your cancer ass right now. I hope you realize that I’m kidding 🙂 Seriously, I was stage 1 at my diagnosis (had a mole removed, and then a very minor surgery), and then the cancer didn’t come back for 8 years (in the same spot). And then 4 years ago, all the real exciting cancer stuff started. Just seemed simpler to skip the mole removal and 8 year gap, however, sleuth that you are, you shed light on my evil, devious plans 🙂 Gadzooks, foiled again!

If you had an 8 year gap, then why are you saying if there's nothing there 2 years after excision then they'll never be anything?

If you had an 8 year gap, then why are you saying if there's nothing there 2 years after excision then they'll never be anything?

If you had an 8 year gap, then why are you saying if there's nothing there 2 years after excision then they'll never be anything?

The doctors said that if my “mole with clear margins” didn’t come back within two years there was like a 97% chance that it wouldn’t come back at all. Thus, when I write “chances are very good…they’ll never be anything,” I’m referring to the extremely high percentage chance that if you have a small cancerous mole removed and the cancer doesn’t come back or spread in two years, numerically speaking there’s a very good chance it won’t. “Chances are very good” is the key phrase here. Perhaps you just overlooked it. Though, as you probably recall, I was the one who suggested getting a scan just in case. In other words, I’m trying to help this person to avoid my mistake. Could my advice be wrong? Absolutely, but we all know that any answer we get here is just one person’s (and perhaps their doctors’) opinions, and as long as those answers are given in the spirit of helping, that’s all we can hope for. Which brings me to the obvious question: what exactly are you trying to do here? Because it seems to me that you’re either a bully or an a__hole and are just hoping to find errors which have nothing to do with the question at hand. Is it really relevant to this particular question that my profile didn’t list every detail of my treatment while my answer did? Of course not. Are you genuinely confused that I said “chances are very good,” while my particular cancer still came back? Of course not. You’re just being a weirdo. So, perhaps you should remind yourself that we’re all trying to help each other here, so maybe knock off the passive-aggressive hostility. Or if you want to be your most dickish self, perhaps find a forum not populated with cancer patients. This a place for helping people.

I just reread what I wrote and would like to apologize for it. I know we’re all under a lot of stress, and all we can do here is try to help each other as kindly and compassionately as possible. I wish you the best of luck with your health and with your loved ones health.

Josh

I just reread what I wrote and would like to apologize for it. I know we’re all under a lot of stress, and all we can do here is try to help each other as kindly and compassionately as possible. I wish you the best of luck with your health and with your loved ones health.

Josh

I just reread what I wrote and would like to apologize for it. I know we’re all under a lot of stress, and all we can do here is try to help each other as kindly and compassionately as possible. I wish you the best of luck with your health and with your loved ones health.

Josh

The doctors said that if my “mole with clear margins” didn’t come back within two years there was like a 97% chance that it wouldn’t come back at all. Thus, when I write “chances are very good…they’ll never be anything,” I’m referring to the extremely high percentage chance that if you have a small cancerous mole removed and the cancer doesn’t come back or spread in two years, numerically speaking there’s a very good chance it won’t. “Chances are very good” is the key phrase here. Perhaps you just overlooked it. Though, as you probably recall, I was the one who suggested getting a scan just in case. In other words, I’m trying to help this person to avoid my mistake. Could my advice be wrong? Absolutely, but we all know that any answer we get here is just one person’s (and perhaps their doctors’) opinions, and as long as those answers are given in the spirit of helping, that’s all we can hope for. Which brings me to the obvious question: what exactly are you trying to do here? Because it seems to me that you’re either a bully or an a__hole and are just hoping to find errors which have nothing to do with the question at hand. Is it really relevant to this particular question that my profile didn’t list every detail of my treatment while my answer did? Of course not. Are you genuinely confused that I said “chances are very good,” while my particular cancer still came back? Of course not. You’re just being a weirdo. So, perhaps you should remind yourself that we’re all trying to help each other here, so maybe knock off the passive-aggressive hostility. Or if you want to be your most dickish self, perhaps find a forum not populated with cancer patients. This a place for helping people.

The doctors said that if my “mole with clear margins” didn’t come back within two years there was like a 97% chance that it wouldn’t come back at all. Thus, when I write “chances are very good…they’ll never be anything,” I’m referring to the extremely high percentage chance that if you have a small cancerous mole removed and the cancer doesn’t come back or spread in two years, numerically speaking there’s a very good chance it won’t. “Chances are very good” is the key phrase here. Perhaps you just overlooked it. Though, as you probably recall, I was the one who suggested getting a scan just in case. In other words, I’m trying to help this person to avoid my mistake. Could my advice be wrong? Absolutely, but we all know that any answer we get here is just one person’s (and perhaps their doctors’) opinions, and as long as those answers are given in the spirit of helping, that’s all we can hope for. Which brings me to the obvious question: what exactly are you trying to do here? Because it seems to me that you’re either a bully or an a__hole and are just hoping to find errors which have nothing to do with the question at hand. Is it really relevant to this particular question that my profile didn’t list every detail of my treatment while my answer did? Of course not. Are you genuinely confused that I said “chances are very good,” while my particular cancer still came back? Of course not. You’re just being a weirdo. So, perhaps you should remind yourself that we’re all trying to help each other here, so maybe knock off the passive-aggressive hostility. Or if you want to be your most dickish self, perhaps find a forum not populated with cancer patients. This a place for helping people.

i meant Josh's profile

i meant Josh's profile

your profile says your initial stage was stage 3, but you started out at stage 1?

scans do have a lot of false positives and are only useful when you have stage 4, or high risk 3; they only show tumors, not microscopic individual stray cells

scans do have a lot of false positives and are only useful when you have stage 4, or high risk 3; they only show tumors, not microscopic individual stray cells

scans do have a lot of false positives and are only useful when you have stage 4, or high risk 3; they only show tumors, not microscopic individual stray cells