Hello I am new to this forum and this is my first post. My mum has just been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma T4N2 the oncologist has told us that it hasn’t spread although she hasn’t had a PET scan yet. The tumour is inoperative due to size (4...
I had a stent fitted in December. I felt truly awful for the two days after. Real pain and shock to the system. Please someone confirm that it need not be always as bad. Some discomfort I can live with - and expect and I will be more careful against...
Hi just introducing myself ,I had an endoscopy after having trouble swallowing and have been told they have found a tumour (appearance malignant) I’m totally stunned,they have taken biopsy’s and said I will need a ct scan , 9. Yrs ago I had bladder cancer...
Hello My husband 57 years old was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer this week via endoscopy after several months of breathlessness showed that he had anaemia (and not long Covid like he had convinced himself!). We managed to get him in for a PET scan...
Hello My husband has Stage 4 oesophageal carcinoma with liver mets. He's just finished 12 cycles of FULFOX chemo. The scan after 6 cycles was excellent - the tumour had shrunk and the liver mets were barely visible. The scan after the final 6 cycles...
Hi After a few days doing quite well after having srent fitted G is back in hospital being treated for aspiration pneumonia. Apparently the tumour has overgrown the stent and blocked it. He is on a feeding tube now and being treated with antibiotics...
I have had 30 treatments of radiotherapy and 2 chemotherapy finishing August 20 2021. My throat was completely closed, so, cancer gone for now but throat badly scared. A rendezvous procedure was carried out to facilitate throat dilation, 4 dilations later...
I had a phone call with the cancer hospital today and they outlined my plan of treatment. I can’t have radiotherapy because one of my lymph nodes higher up is affected and they are worried about damaging my lungs. So I start chemotherapy soon-one day...
Hi all…I haven’t posted for a while on here but feeling quite low because I suspect that treatment hasn’t worked. My cancer was graded stage 4 as the tumour had grown through my oesophagus & wrapped itself around my aorta so surgery wasn’t an option...
Hi I have been diagnosis recently with lower oesophageal cancer and it’s spread to my lungs. I’ve had a telephone appointment today to discuss treatment and I’m now even more deflated and confused than I was before. I didn’t get to ask most of the questions...
