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My mum had an endoscopy and colonscopy today due to anemia, heartburn and bouts of sickness. The doc came after and explained she has a 20p size growth on the part stomach joins oesophagus, she cannot 100% say cancer until biopsy back and a CT scan of...
My uncle has recently been diagnosed with esophageal cancer and starts his radiotherapy and chemotherapy on 16th of December. He was fitted with a mask yesterday that he will wear during radiotherapy but he couldn't bare it over his face and is now in...
Hi, could anyone give me some good ideas on foods to eat. My very good friend is now struggling with certain foods getting stuck. I want to ensure he is eating well but things he can tolerate. Thank you
Hi everyone I am currently on my forth cycle of pre op flot with surgery in January My consultant wants me to do the Decipher trial for post op chemotherapy instead of FLOT using the drug trastuzumab deruxtecan. Has anyone else been offered this or had...
My wife was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the Gastro oesophageal junction earlier this year. She had pre surgery FLOT., then surgery. The surgery was completed but there were R1 positive margins. The plan was always for post surgery FLOT. The...
Hi all terrified to even be joining this group. My beautiful partner is 59 and last year I encouraged him to go to Gp due to heartburn. Dr prescribed Lanzoprazole and referred for endoscopy. Never heard anything back from that and assumed it was fine...
Hi everyone, So I posted a few days ago about my very good friend being diagnosed. He has his scan next week when we will see what stage it is. My worry is that he seems to be in a lot of pain and it has got worse over the last week. The doctor has...
My husband has been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer and is half way through his second palliative chemo cycle. He has lost so much weight and is struggling with loss of appetite. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what life after the chemotherapy...
Hi everyone just asking for some advice please. My husband was diagnosed last year with a T3 as well as some lymph nodes infected, he had 4 rounds of FLOT Chemo then the Ivor Lewis procedure, then another 4 rounds of FLOT. He is currently cancer free...
Sadly, my father has been told a few days ago his cancer is terminal. We were advised chemo wouldn't work and due to the location of the cancer high in his throat that they couldn't operate, radio theropy was the only shot but it didn't work and the tumor...
