A “complete remission” (CR) is nice, but a cure means that all those tiny cancer cells are eliminated, either by death or sterilization of the individual cells. An oncologist cannot know this, but we have lots of data that can lead to good predictions. Someone who has completed modern immunotherapy for metastatic melanoma and lives five more years without recurrence (or eight years, for 39t...
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