Hello, Am new member here. Signed in just now!

I was diagnosed with Oesophagus cancer just about 1 year ago. Could not have Chemo but had 20 sessions of Radiotherapy. Was given relatively good news after a while. However my health began to deteriorate and it was found that i was bleeding internally from scarring around the tumour. I was hospitalised and was given 4 units of blood. Further scans at that time showed the tumour had not gone away. That was back in April this year when, without treatment, I was given 6 months to live. Because of other health problems and on advice from the Oncology team At Guy's Cancer Centre I made the decision not to have treatment. Their opinion was that my quality of life after any treatment might be actually worse than currently. Since April and up until about 3 weeks ago I was doing fine, eating soft foods and enjoying most things. For the past 3 weeks things have gone from bad to worse and now find it difficult at times to even swallow water. I am currently awaiting a date to have a stent fitted, hopefully within the next week. It is very gratifying to read about the benefits of this treatment on the forum and am looking forward to a new lease of life, be it long or short. I will be forever grateful for the wonderful attention and care that the NHS has given me and I cannot praise the Oncology staff enough for their almost daily contacts.