If you have been diagnosed with cancer of any kind, you are a survivor, whether you are still fighting, or have been cancer free for years.
I was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1999. After surgical removal of my left nut, I have been cancer free since then. No chemo or radiation.
PTF
Three skin melanomas in the last 12 years, all excised successfully.
Endometrial cancer diagnosis in March 2008. After surgery and 7 rounds of chemo I just past the 4 year cancer free mark.
Cancer certainly causes you to rethink your priorities in life.
Seven skin cancer lesions removed over the past 25 years and one coming up next Tuesday. Needless to say, I’m religious with the sunblock.
(Why yes, I’m a fair skinned individual)
I’m cancer free, so far. I see the dermatologist every six months, and he tends to remove a dysplastic nevus or two. Depending on who you ask, it’s apparently either a marker that I’m a high risk for certain skin cancers, or it’s actually a pre-cancerous growth.
My father had an aggressive form of prostate cancer. My mother is a breast cancer survivor. My grand parents died of a malignant melanoma, colon cancer, leukemia, and old age. One uncle has died of…um…I forgot which kind of cancer. I should know this. Anyway, I’ve assumed for a long time that I’ll end up with some cancer or another.
I see my dermatologist again tomorrow…hopefully nothing will chance in my answer. 
-D/a
Mother and her sister died of lung cancer, her brother died of brain cancer, her other two sisters of leukemia, and my brother is dying from lung cancer. On the other side my grandmother and her sister both had breast cancer but survived. I have had lymphoma, breast cancer, and assorted skin cancers but am not under treatment now.
Stage IV-B Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Over a month in the hospital, comatose for 5 days or so. Full remission in 6 months with just 6 cycles of ABVD (chemo, 6 cycles = 1 dose every 2 weeks for 6 months), no bone marrow transplant, no radiation. Go figure. I count my blessings. 10 years in remission as of this January.
Stage 1A Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, treated with radiation and surgery. Been in full remission for 20 years as of next month.
Renal Cell Carcinoma. Right radical nephrectomy in 1997 at 38 yrs.
Did annual follows up for 2 years ( CT scans etc) But then decided as it wasn’t a type of cancer that typically responds to any treatment, at the time, if it happened to metastise to other sites.
I just decided to forget about it. It did my head in the month before my annual check ups so abandoned them figuring if it came back it would let me know.
Very next year I had a heart attack with ventricular fibrillation complications!
Had something new to worry about then 
I’ll probably end up getting run over by a bus so don’t give either medical event any thought these days
Stage IIB, recurrring, in remission since 1973. Congratulations to you!
Already several posts with skin cancer. I had one melanoma removed about 6 years ago - no chemo, no radiation - and so far so good. I now see an aggressive dermatologist every 6 months for the duration. I don’t really consider myself a cancer “survivor”, as what I went thru was minor compared to what “real” cancer patients have to endure. And yeah, I am rather preachy about the sunblock.
Melanoma removed about 25 years ago.
Count my vote as two:
Me - prostate cancer.
SO - lymphoma.
Both of us cancer free now - and it has been many years.
I know there are a few similar threads/questions on other forums and I hope anyone reading this thread realizes a cancer diagnosis does not mean there is no hope.
However, you do need to go to a doctor sooner than later if you have any suspicions of odd warts or skin abnormalities or lumps. Even if you don’t have any signs (which is usually the case) you should still schedule fairly regular appointments with doctors to make sure. Early detection makes a huge difference and if there is ever a time to NOT go into denial, it is with putting off having a physical exam regularly.
BTW, I know this is easier said than done if you don’t have insurance, but try to find a local free health clinic or hospital that will work with you to have at least the minimum check ups - even if it does require a long wait.
Congratulations!
I might add that when I first mentioned the moles on my torso to my primary care physician, he non-chalantly waived away any concern. Only on my request did he refer me to a dermatologist, and she gladly removed and biopsied a number of them - one of them turned out to be melanoma. Glad I did not take only his advice, and went to see a specialist.
Yep. It’s a rare one, too - “Female Adnexial Tumor of Possible Wolffian Origin”. They took out my left ovary, no chemo, no radiation.
As an amusing note, the Wolffian bodies are supposed to go away completely in a female fetus. If I had been male, they would have developed into my prostate. So I am probably the only female-born-women you’ll ever know who has had prostate cancer…
Squamous Cell Carcinoma in my right tonsil Stage 2 (same thing Michael Douglas had)
No chemo or radiation
Full excision with no cancerous cells at the excision site. Lymph negative.
Cancer free for 2 years next month
Hi, I’m new here but i was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2009, i was in the early stages and went through six months of chemo and was in hospital twice because the hickman lines i had to give me chemo through my neck got infected, but after all that i went in to remisson in 2010 and have been ever since
Not yet.
I expect to be, though. My mother had uterine cancer (while she was carrying me) and breast cancer. Father was a non-smoker who died of lung cancer. Mother was one of 11, 6 had cancer, including two breast cancer, 2 colon cancer, kidney cancer. My paternal grandmother died of pancreatic cancer. My sister, nephew and aunt have had thyroid cancer. It just goes on and on.
StG
Wilms’ tumor in 1990. At 12, I was pretty old to have gotten it.
I lost my left kidney and half of my left lung. Did the usual run of chemo and radiation. I had another (thankfully benign) tumor come up where the kidney had been in 1995. I just had my yearly check up CT scan last week. Still cancer free.