Has anyone is Cancer ever returned within months of treatment?

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So in September last year I had a lumpectomy and then had eight rounds of chemo with two weeks of radiotherapy which finished at the beginning of April, the consultant, although they didn’t do a scan, said the lumpectomy gave clear margins, and there was no reason to believe that the chemo and the radio didn’t work so I was cancer free.

However, this week I’ve been diagnosed with a brain tumour and they are saying the likelihood of me having another primary cancer is rare so they think it must be secondary and therefore my cancer has come back. It seems hard to believe to me. Has anyone else been in this situation?

i’m still waiting on scans so don’t know anything for certain yet and know all of this is speculation but anyone’s experience would be gratefully received