slight difficulty in swallowing on two occasions while on holiday last summer. Mentioned it to my GP in passing, some weeks later. His response was "we'd better get that checked out"
2 weeks later I had a gastroscopy and a specialist nurse told my wife and I that there was a tumour in my oesophagus and that It was most probably cancer, but this would be confirmed after tha biopsy taken had been examined.
CT and PET scans were done and an endoscopic ultrasound followed at one week intervals..
Staging: T2N0M0
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