Hi. I’m new to this group and hoping it’s ok I am here and not intruding as I haven’t had official diagnosis. I’m a 41 year old Mother and struggling. I am currently awaiting an endoscopy as they suspect I have oesophageal cancer but it’s not until...
Hi, I had my gastroscopy last Thursday. I had no problem with my throat when I went in. Now, five days later my throat still feels thick and sore. Is this normal?
Well getting scan results on Friday 13th definitely doubled my stress levels. My previous scan in Oct showed thickening in the area I had the tumour before chemo and radiotherapy and that it had spread to lymph nodes on both sides. I was told I was...
My partner, Stuart, had an oesophagectomy over a year ago. He has been unable to eat, getting nutrition through a nasal gastric tube. He had vocal cord palsy as well but it was treated in August but sadly only had his voice for two months. Since October...
Hi everyone hope we are all doing ok or at least as best as we can on this journey. got a call from my consultant on Friday saying they want me to go and have a consultation and treatment at Nottingham city. after a Ivor Lewis procedure in January of...
I met with the oncologist today and she went through the plans with me, quite a lot to take in but on the whole a positive plan. I will have chemotherapy and immunotherapy every 3 weeks for 6 to 8 weeks all dependent on side effects and response, a...
I was diagnosed Stage 4 G3 SCC Oesophagus / T4 N1 M1 in November 23 and underwent 4/6 rounds of Capecitabine/cisplatin with good results, partial shrinkage of tumour and evidences for lungs. CT scans every 3 months so slight increase in size of tumour...
Happy new year to you all it’s been a while since I posted and for that I send my apologies. Time, although so grateful to have it, has taken over some what since my last post. on the 17th of this month I will celebrate 1 whole year since surgery...
Hi everyone I thought I’d give a quick update on Paul who’s receiving treatment for a recurrence (see my profile if you want more details). So he’s having the chemo infusion every 3 weeks, tablets every day and a strong dose of immunotherapy every other...
Hi everyone, my husband had his esophageal removal surgery 8th Dec and is doing well. We have first post surgery appt with mdt team next week then an oncology appt the week after. They mentioned having immunotherapy treatment after surgery a while before...
