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Discharged from being followed for cancer
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Sep 8 11:19am | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
Sounds like good news to me. Think it says you are cured. Yay!
Most people are not checked regularly for cancer because they are generally not at risk. Now you are not at anymore risk than they are.
Have you been checked for hvp recently. After my treatment that resolved itself. Maybe yours is gone too.
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The Anal Cancer Foundation recommends everyone who had this cancer get the HPV vaccination regardless of age. Some insurance covers it up to age 45, but I'm 79 so I paid out of pocket, even though there was no obvious sign of any lingering virus. It may be like the herpes virus, which hides until something stimulates it. Statistically, having had one HPV virus cancer actually greatly increases my risk of one of 8 more HPV caused cancers, or a new anal cancer. I can only hope that the vaccine helped, because it wasn't cheap.