Remember that we can only know that a treatment is potentially curative if it has been in use for many years. If your practitioner says he or she can cure you with a treatment that has only been in use for a few months or years, don’t believe them. It’s that simple. It could be true that immediately after completing the treatment there are indeed some patients in whom no cancer can be detected by currently available tests. However, as you already know from earlier chapters in this book, this does not necessarily mean that no cancer cells at all are left. Remember, there are no tests currently available that can pick up very tiny seedlings. We can only say that patients have been completely cured in retrospect, that is, after enough time has gone by for any remaining tiny seedlings to activate and form obvious secondary growths. This time is different for different types of cancer, but is never less than two years. Usually it is from five to twenty or more years.
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