Hello Steviebird and thanks for posting, 

Historically, follow up after cancer treatment has varied as there has been some uncertainty about the amount of benefit various tests confer in terms of picking up a cancer that has come back so it can be treated. Local protocols may still vary, but I think you can take what your nurse said at face value as these sorts of things do get reviewed and changed from time to time depending on the current evidence.

I am not sure if anyone else will come along and post, I hope they do, but don't let it bother you if they say something different.

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Best wishes,

Julia