Hi, My father aged 76 has just got the diagnosis oesophageal adenocarcinoma situated 35 cm down from the teeth row. He has had swallowing difficulties since early March with painful swallowing. They have done an endoscopy and taken biopsies and also a CT where they found some enlarged lymph nodes near the tumor as well as a suspected lymph node further down. They also found something unclear on the liver but they do not know if it is cancerous. They now have told us that they will do PET CT, biking test and tests of the lung capacity. They are awaiting the results from the planned tests and the PET and wants the MD team to take a look at the pictures since they are not as skilled at the local hospital to decide whether an enlarged lymphnode is cancerous or not. However, the doctor was very negative to operation, he told us that it is a very large and complicated operation with very much side effects. If you have to be in intensive care for one month, you are lucky he said and he also told us that there is a chance tha patient wont survive the operation. He also told us that operation is the only alternative of cure. All this information is rather shocking and depressive news to us. Is it correct that such a tumor can not be cured without operation? I have read about both radiotherapy and chemo as well as immune therapy. You that did not get operated, how are your experiences? Best wishes, Annelie
