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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I Agree OP. Watching a loved one's body be ravaged by cancer and/or cancer treatments, having your entire world upended, not knowing what the next few months or a year hold, and the toll that it takes on the patient and everyone around them is vastly different than finding an isolated group of cancer cells that are quickly and completely removed and the person returns to their normal life.

It's odd to call yourself a survivor if you didn't go through a period of thinking that your life was actually at risk. It's like the difference between "I survived a car crash" when you were rear-ended on a side street going 10 mph vs. a pile-up on the Beltway. [/quote]

If you have melanoma, even treated, you do not go back to your normal life.  You worry every time you go in the sun, you change vacation plans, you buy different clothes, you may change your commute to work or change the hours you are outside.

I agree it's not the same as going through chemo or dying, but to pretend that you go back to your normal life is absurd.
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