I’d like to suggest to not stress if the cancer reoccurs. I had stage III esophageal cancer with 5 wks. Chemo & radiation followed by complete esophagectomy with gastric pullup in 2019. Some little microscopic cancer cells were found in the path report following surgery and a year later confirmed cancer was still there. So then switched to Proton therapy in 2020.
It’s now 2 1/2 years later with clean scans. I’ve been told that my next option, if needed, would probably be immunotherapy.
So new treatments become available and just focus on staying strong and don’t dwell on ‘what if’. Stress is not a healing mechanism.