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Thanks ... I'll visualize those cancer cells going down one by one. The coming concept in the literature is that metastatic cells are present in the bone marrow before the primary is ever detected. The idea of being 'cancer free' after simple surgery is probably inaccurate. Unlike many cancers, breast cancer comes back, and back, and back ... the gift that keeps on giving. You don't ever go back to normal risk, even if you go years before a recurrence. Surgery gets the local disease but chemo is for the systemic. So - down with ye, distant cancer cells!