This is my second post, I need to apologize for not responding to my previous post as i have been trying to get my head around this. I have been diagnosed stage 4 Esophagus cancer no operation as it has spread to my lymph nodes, Was told if i do not have...
Hi everyone. I’m not really used to forums but here goes as I’m completely lost and if I’m honest frightened. So I was first diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in may 24. Chemo and radiation treatment soon followed for a few weeks, then I had break...
4 weeks ago I wrote that I had been diagnosed with an 8cm tumor following an endoscopy and biopsies. The next day was a CT, followed by a call the week later from the surgeon confirming adenocarcinoma but saying they are provisionally planning for chemo...
My husband has a Adenocarcinoma extending into stomach T3 N1 diagnosis and completed 6 cycles of Capox chemotherapy last treatment 7th April and capecitabine tablets finished on 28th April. He will continue with Pembrolizumab immunotherapy every 6 wks...
hi you lovelies, so after a very vague, "we cant tell you too much" conversation from my stoke oncologist, thank god my surgeon Bruno from Churchill called with the results of the PET scan that i pushed for. Our heads went a bit dark at home, but we are...
My husband has been diagnosed with inoperable gastrooesophageal junction cancer. Not on major organs but in the outer intestinal lining and lymph nodes. He is unable to tolerate anything orally and has had an NJ tube inserted 6 weeks and has osmalite...
Hello, it's been 15 months since I first went to my GP with swallowing and reflux problems. Initial diagnosis was Barretts with Low Grade Displasia. Subsequent follow ups raised this to High Grade Displasia followed by 2 EMR prodedures and now at the...
Hi all, my husband has been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer on the 10th of April. we went to A&E on the 5th of February as he was very weak blood test showed that he was anaemic and losing blood internally. They sent him home without doing any tests...
My partner, Stuart, had an oesophagectomy November 2024. Pathology results indicated that there were cancer cells present however they were graded as low risk and unlikely to come back. However, in October 25 he developed strider which paralysed his one...
Hi guys, My dad was diagnosed in November as stage 3.He had the 4 rounds of FLOT and the surgery 1 month ago.He is doing well and seems to be managing to eat. He is aware i have been on here reading about everybody’s journey and has asked me to post on...
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