When cancer goes away

Let’s face it, you’re complicated. Much as scientists like to put us on straight tracks that lead to measurable and inevitable endpoints, we curve, dip, bend and even go into reverse.

If we’re unlucky enough to develop cancer, the disease doesn’t always follow its inexorable path from stage I to stage IV when it’s not successfully treated. Instead, it sometimes just goes away.

This strange and very unscientific phenomenon, known