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"Before I left Glamour we got a letter from a reader saying she liked me and all but that it was misleading to say I have cancer when I don&amp;#x27;t anymore. For some reason I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Is it misleading? And, more importantly, do I not have cancer anymore? (Talk about being the last to know!) If the topic comes up in conversation with a new person I usually say &amp;quot;I have cancer--but it&amp;#x27;s not what you think, I&amp;#x27;ve been in deep remission for years, just take a pill, feel great, drink wine, blah, blah, blah.&amp;quot; That seems the most accurate way to describe being a Gleevec-taking, PCR-U, CML patient. How could I say I had cancer when I&amp;#x27;m still being treated for that cancer? To me that would be misleading. At the same time this woman does have a point. I was off my Gleevec for 10 months to have Alex and the leukemia didn&amp;#x27;t come back...maybe it is unfair to say I have cancer. And it&amp;#x27;s not like I&amp;#x27;m sick or enduring what so many other patients go through (though I sincerely don&amp;#x27;t think I present myself that way). I know there&amp;#x27;s the whole issue of calling yourself a survivor when you haven&amp;#x27;t quite survived yet (I used to have a problem with it, now I&amp;#x27;ve come around), which we&amp;#x27;ve discussed here, but this is different. And trickier. What do you think is the right way to handle it? What do you think I should say when people ask? And to all you CMLers out there, what&amp;#x27;s your response?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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