"This means, Mr. Shen will become our first late-stage pancreatic cancer patient under long-term management," Dr. Li said. "His treatment will not have a definite end date; it may last for years, possibly for life, or it may even be cured by next month."
Shen Guohua and Zhou Min understood. There is no cure, only control—like hypertension or diabetes—living long-term with cancer.
"As long as I live," Shen Guohua said simply, holding his wife's hand tightly.
From the despair of diagnosis to the thrills of treatment, and now living with the disease, this is the best outcome.
Any late-stage malignant tumor patient would jump for joy if they heard they could live with the disease and control it for life, just like with hypertension or diabetes.
