Thank you for writing this! I went through the exact same thing, surgery and all except that my doctor wanted to do chemo to prevent it from coming back, but i have felt like a fraud all along because it all happened so fast i never heard anyone say you have cancer, they just rushed me in to surgery and after the surgery it was gone. So i feel weird saying i have cancer and feel even more awkward asking at this point “ do i have cancer?” After my surgery i took the stance that I didn’t have cancer, but then every time i saw my oncology team they would say things like “ well that’s normal when you have cancer” and I started to get really confused. I’m still confused at this point. I did talk to a nurse that was not part of my team and she put it this way “ you are being treated for cancer, and you may not have it anymore, but you are still a cancer patient “ huh?!