My mum (82) was diagnosed in September last year. She decided not to have an op to remove the tumour and instead had a stent fitted to help her eat as she couldn't swallow at all hardly. All was fine until January, she was struggling to swallow again, the stent was repositioned. Within a month we were told it had fallen into her stomach and was replaced. Within a couple of weeks the new stent failed again and it was repositioned again a few weeks ago. It has failed yet again so in five months it has failed five times. Each time she is scared to eat so she has lost so much weight she is skin and bone. Had anyone else had this issue with stents, we are at the end of our tether?
