Sad though that may have been for that particular patient, there was a positive side, the cancer never reappeared.

The cancer went into remission, then reappeared in 1994.

He then told Valentine about his mother, how she once had breast cancer, and how cancer had reappeared.

She remained cancer-free for several years but died in 2009 after her cancer reappeared and spread to her brain.

Three years later, in 1999, Zucker was told that his cancer had reappeared.

However, at the age of four, cancer reappeared, this time in her brain.

Crile performed a successful lumpectomy on Rosmond and her cancer did not reappear until the late 1990s.

He had been diagnosed with lymphoma in 1984 and the cancer had reappeared in 2004.

But in 2001 the cancer reappeared, more advanced, and her doctors recommended a 10-month course of drugs and radiation, plus a marrow transplant, she said.

Since there is a high risk that these cancers will reappear, the study sought to assess whether psychological interventions might enhance the immune resistance.