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Why doesn't cancer treatment end after remission is achieved?
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Which cancer?: Adjuvant (post surgery) treatment does have an end. Some metastatic treatments usually end at a maximum number of cycles of therapy (eg lung cancer - 6). Some treatments are continued in the advanced/metastatic setting until progressive disease or toxicity because they have been proven to (or thought to) improve survival.
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Remission: Remission is a term meaning that there are no visible signs of a cancer (on exam or scans) but we know that it can often take many more cycles of chemotherapy to actually cure cancers. The number of cycles depends on many things such as the exact type of tumor and stage. You should talk with your oncologist about what the expected treatment plan will be.
Answered 12/26/2012
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