I think the term "survivor" denies the fact that we live with the threat of recurrence or metastasis long term. Sure we can put it on the back burner. But honestly we are never 100% safe. I am 10 years out and know that with hormonal cancers, risk continues to rise. It is what is.

I read a book that was highly critical of the warrior language ("fight," "brave" etc.). If cancer comes back, or if we are losing the "battle,", it doesn't mean we have weaker characters or lack strength of any kind.

The same book was highly critical of the pink theme as a form of marketing cancer.
I dnn't personally have any feelings about that other than pink kind of trivializes the experience. I do think, however, that some of the advocacy using pink has resulted in a lot more research.