“No such thing as cancer free.”
Nine years cancer-free. My oncologist says that the cancer I had will NEVER return.
Your body produced cancer because your immune system can not recognize cancer cells, which are our own cells with faulty DNA. Faulty cells are produced by the billions in every body, and the immune system destroys them before they form a tumor.
If your cancer was caught early and was caused by sudden exposure to cancer causing incident such as over-exposure to ultra-violet causing skin cancer, it is possible your immune system is still functional. And the cancer was local and excised by treatment.
What is really insidious about cancer is that it can start in some place in body, and there are no symptoms. If cancer is growing in Liver, it takes months and years before symptoms show up. There is no way to detect early cancer without constant biopsies in every organ.
I remember reading years ago that ever person living has cancerous cells and most times the body can kill them, sometimes not and the cancer develops.
so I agree with no such thing as cancer free.
Best we can do is make as many healthy choices as possible to keep immune system up to speed.