Dr. Ellen Langer

So you're in remission and

If cancer comes back, in some ways, just as a cold, it'll be the same kind of cancer.

But just as certainly, if it comes back, it will be different.

Everything is both same and different.

I'll see you tomorrow.

I'm the same person.

I'm also a different person.

And so, reasonably, you can see...

the cancer as cured or in remission.

When we see it as cured, we go about living our lives.

We become more mindful, open, happy, successful, enjoying ourselves, probably even better than we did before we had cancer because all of a sudden we realize, you know, life doesn't go on endlessly, so let me make the moments matter.

And the moments can't matter if you're mindless.

Well, I think that if the medical world tells you you're in remission, you should remember what I'm saying now.

I would say you're cured.

Great.

Now, Mel, I believe, so everything I've said so far is based on hard research.

I don't have the research for this particular statement.

Nevertheless, I believe it as fully as one can and still be mindful.

I agree with you.

Which is stress is our major killer.