You breathe a little easier when the first test comes back with a number the doc calls “undetectable.”
But, they don’t have a bell for you to ring that soon, celebrating the “defeat” of the disease. Way too early for that.
The whole experience – taking months of appointments, tests, waiting for test results, surgery, recovery – tells you this ain’t necessarily over, that nothing about this kind of cancer is simple, and the doc will want another test in three months, then another in six months…