Hi, My Mum 71 years old she had a Dr’s appointment three weeks ago for indigestion and has now had as endoscopy where she was told she has a she esophageal tumour between 25cm - 18cm and it’s 7cm in size does anyone know where about as in its this upper...
Hello, My husband had an oesophagectomy on 14th November. The surgeon was pleased with his progress and he was discharged from hospital on 21st. On the whole his recovery is going well, able to have a short walk every day and feeding is becoming slightly...
Hi just joined the group. My husband had a CT scan on 6th October and an endoscopy the following day resulted in a diagnosis of oesophagus cancer. A week later the results of biopsies showed the cancer had already spread in lungs and liver so an operation...
After my Mum was diagnosed with cancer during COVID and following chemo and radiotherapy she was told that an operation wasn't possible. She was fairly quickly fitted with a feeding tube in down her throat and after many months finally fitted with a tube...
My husband has a date for his staging laparoscopy can anyone tell us how long after this can we expect surgery to happen.
Hello All My lovely husband had 30 sessions of radical radiotherapy for tonsil cancer that had spread into tongue base. We are almost two years along. My husband still can’t eat anything other than liquids, soup and milkshakes. He still has a PEG tube...
Hi Everyone, I have just been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. I have had blood tests, X rays, endoscopy CT scan and PET scan and now waiting for a loan of action. My consultant says it can be cured, although I realise there are no guarantees. He said...
Hi everyone, my husband has just been diagnosed he's had ct scan 2 weeks ago and now waiting for a call for a pet scan. It was such a shock when we were sat in a room and we got handed a mcmillan card with contact nurses and a bag of liquid food supplies...
Hi All. I've finally got date for my operation. Its 6th December. It'll be approx 2 and a half months since last chemo. FLOT chemo shrank tumour but I still need the op. Gad to have a date as time goes on I'll be getting more terrified. All the horror...
Does anyone know how long the wait between staging laparoscopy and surgery is?
