Hello. It is not I who has cancer but my husband. He was diagnosed with incidental early stage oesophageal cancer at the beginning of the year. He had and has none of the symptoms associated with OC. It was discovered by chance and is a complete shock. He has had slow growing Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma for many years and had a PET scan towards the end of last year to check that cancer's progress. The
scan showed something unusual in his upper oesophagus and he had a gastroscopy with biopsies taken and a CT scan in December. These tests indicated that he had high grade dysplasia and this was the probable diagnosis conveyed to us when we met with the upper GI surgeon and the specialist nurse in early January. Last week my husband had another gastroscopy and more biopsies taken; he also had an endoscopic ultrasound. When we received the written reports from these procedures immediately afterwards we were shocked to read that the cancer is already T2. We are now hoping that the biopsies have been analysed and wondering when we might hear from the nurse, surgeons and/or oncologists re next steps. I am of course glad that the King received very prompt diagnosis and treatment within days but wish that this was the case for my husband. The waiting is hard and I'm feeling very anxious at the beginning of my husband's OC journey particularly in view of the fact that he has T cell lymphoma as well. I thought I would join this forum and hopefully 'meet' others in this position and further along.
Regards
Artemis
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