The difference between people who have not been diagnosed with cancer and those of us who have is that we have the knowledge that our risk is greater – not just for the cancer we already had, but for future cancer – i.e., since you have had progressive estrogen-positive breast cancer, you are also at greater risk than average for future ovarian cancer. That is something you need to be sure to discuss with your doctor.

Also, surely you were put on hormone therapy (tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor) after chemo, which keeps hormones from stimulating cancer growth. This is both because there’s no way to be sure you are “cured,” and because even if you are, you have proved to have a higher risk for a new hormone-positive cancer, and the drugs will help prevent either a new one or a recurrence of the old. (It is true, however, that some recurrences of breast cancer in women who have been on hormone therapy are now hormone-negative, which means those drugs won’t help anymore.)

It’s all very complex, and everybody is different, but we all need to better understand the limits of what is actually known and can be done, for treatment decisions to make sense. That’s why I think throwing the word “cure” around is misleading and unhelpful.

Best of luck to you ( I have almost the same pathology as you).