When do you start counting days in cancer remission?

The timing for counting remission days can vary depending on your specific treatment plan and what your oncology team considers the completion of active treatment. This is definitely a question worth discussing with your medical team, as they'll have the best insight into your particular situation and can clarify when they would officially consider your remission period to begin. Other community members may have helpful perspectives to share about their own experiences with this milestone too.

Was wondering the same thing. In my mind, when I finish Keytruda, ( everything else is done), l will be in remission. I will see if they agree with me in March!

I was diagnosed with TNBC that was BRCA aggressive in January 2023, had initial mastectomies that showed clean margins and 3 sentinel nodes. However, within 10 months spread to one node and chemo began 2024. Went through full year of chemo, more surgery to remove the node, radiation, and now on PARP inhibitor 2025 till now. I am cancer free since the treatments but no talk of remission… the nursing education I received states 5 years of being cancer free, assuming off treatments. Not sure what or when Oncology will tell me… being cancer free is not remission to my understanding.