Can cancer be 'cured'?

Can cancer be 'cured'?

The definition of cure is no detectable disease by any method. Chronicle, radiographic, or pathologic meaning or even by biopsy there is no evidence that you have any abnormal cells in your body pertaining to the term of origin. So if you have breast cancer, you were treated and we were to go back and we have biopsy and there will be no evidence that there is any breast cancer still present. The problem is you have to figure out how you will differentiate cure from remission because essentially at certain points through their exact same appearance in both settings you have no visible tumor. The difference is over a period of time there is no signs of occurrence then you will be termed cured and for each cancer that is different. For some cancer it is five years, some is fifteen years, some is twenty years so you, depending upon what kind of tumor you are talking about and how long you have been without detectable disease the term is whether you are in a remission or you are cured.