What is 'remission'?

What is 'remission'?

Christian Cable, Dr. Ryan Osborne & Dr. Noam Z. Drazin (Cancer Experts) gives expert video advice on: What is a 'cancer cell'?; What causes cancer?; Can cancer be 'cured'? and more...

Remission is a state in which whatever disease entity a patient had has regressed from its visible, clinically detectable form. Meaning if you had a tumor in your breast, we can identify it by doing a cats can. If that tumor were to disappear, meaning it could not be detected by cats can, you would be considered to be in remission, because there is nothing that we can identify. That's different than cured. It merely means we cannot see any evidence, with the tools that we have available, that you have a cancer in your body.