I found this site just when I was convinced that there was no help out there for people like me, I am a 51 year old female, non smoker or drinker, but one week before Christmas I was diagnosed with Squamous cell carcinoma of the Oesophagus, for 8 months and 8 Dr's I had been telling them that something was very wrong, they all had an opinion, they were all wrong, eventually they settled on the diagnosis of a Hiatus Hernia, I disagreed with this, some how I just knew that was not what was wrong. Sadly I was right and take no pleasure in that fact this time, there has has been unbelievable delay, total mix up with appointments and tests, and incredibly I was under the care of a hospital already as I have CLL, (a form of Leukemia ) but even those Dr's missed this, recently a 2nd Endoscopy revealed that I have an 8cm tumour growing the length of my gullet, I had a Pet scan on the 18th and a meeting with the Consultant on the 22nd to discuss whats next, that is of course if there is a next, if the Cancer hasnt spread and he considers this tumour treatable, fingers and everything else crossed it is.
