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A doctor answers the question: What is remission?
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Dr. Charles Nash is the medical director of the Cancer Center at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. He is also an oncologist with The Longstreet Clinic Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology. Nash said that breast cancer is one of the top four cancers treated at The Longstreet Clinic, accounting for at least 25 percent of all cases, followed by lung cancer, prostate cancer and gastrointestinal cancers. - photo by Scott Rogers
Remission is different for each and every patient, but the definition remains the same.
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Celebrating Perseverance: Elizabeth Love continues the fight
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Elizabeth Love has kept up her full-time job while undergoing chemotherapy for metastatic cancer. The treatments stop the spread of the disease, but come at a steep cost for Love. - photo by Scott Rogers

This is Celebrating Perseverance, a podcast series about the ins and outs, the highs and lows of cancer and what it looks like for the people battling it in Hall County. On this episode, how Elizabeth Love continues to fight metastatic cancer, while living life as normal as it can be.