I have 13xm Barrets diagnosed some 8 years ago , my specialist hit me with some options last week that scared the life out of me. RFA , cryo and finally an oesophagectomy to remove half my oesophagus. The oesophagectomy scares me somewhat as YEP I googled...
Hi, I am new to the forum and trying to do as much research as possible on behalf of my Father who was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer last year, he had 8 cycles of Chemotherapy & immunotherapy - Capox & Nivolumab. The 8 cycles were super effective...
Hi After a wait of 8 months since diagnosis, we are plodding on with the chemo (round 5 tomorrow). My husband is a pessimist, and while I play the optimism card, really I'm in a continuous state of anxiety. We won't have any scan results until the end...
Hi My poor old husband has oral lucoplakia caused by oesophageal cancer. Diagnosed at last after months of being told it was thrush. It is making him feel utterly miserable, and although he can swallow, he won't eat anything as the taste is ghastly...
Hello Friday past my brother finished his last session of chemo and tommorow he has his cat scan allthough the weeks of chemo really ran him down the 2nd week prior to the next round of chemo he done very well and eating better and better where now...
Hi everybody, I’m new to this forum. I hope you don’t mind me asking a question on behalf of my dad. He has had the pre-op chemo and is waiting for a date for his operation, probably at St Thomas’s in London. There was a pencilled in date for the 11th...
On June 13th I received the devastating news that I have a suspicious 3 cm growth in my oesophagus. And I am on an NHS fast track for cancer diagnosis. Pathology results are back. I do not know what it shows but it must be malignancy or else other tests...
Hi All, My husband had his first cycle of CAPOX last Thursday and is really suffering at the moment, he has extreme fatigue, nausea, diarrhoea and is feeling so down. How many days will this last? Any advice please. Angie
Hi, new to the site. My partner has just been diagnosed with OC. Initially, they said the hope would be to have chemo and then surgery. Subsequent to that, they sent him for a biopsy on a lymph node under his collar bone. At the oncology appointment this...
Hello I hope this is the right Forum. Does anyone have experience they would share on dealing with oesophageal scarring after radiation therapy? My son has a different cancer but has been warned that if he accepts radiation therapy for it he might get...
