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Hi everyone, Just reaching out to see if anybody having CAPOX treatment is having any other treatment apart from immunotherapy, my husband tested negative for this but surely there is something else in place of immunotherapy. We have to hope that...
Hubby diagnosed oesophagus cancer T2 N1 M0 Oct 22, 4 rounds of FLOT completed 1st Feb 23, ivor Lewis surgery 28th March 2023. Restarted next round of FLOT, 2 more to go. The surgeon's, onogology and the lovely macmillan nurses at kingsmill hospital are...
Hi I’ve not been on this forum for a while but just wanted to offer some positivity to others who have gone through surgery recently . My husband had his OC surgery in Dec 22 ..He was almost 65 at the time .He had two thirds of his oesophagus removed...
My mum has just been diagnosed with CA oesophagus,no spread.Not fit enough for surgery or chemo but has been offered curative radiotherapy.Had a mapping appointment this week and waiting to hear a s rt date for 4 weeks of radiotherapy.Anyone in a similar...
Good morning all, my partner 48 has just been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, we are not certain on his staging as yet as he needs to have a PET scan to see if it's gone into any more of his lymph nodes, currently in one that is near his tumor. Obviously...
Hi All Sitting here wondering weather to go ahead with treatment or not What i cant understand is why when i can eat normally have no pains and am leading a normal life would i agree to have poison put into my body that might make me feel like shit...
Hi all, Thank you to all that have messaged me so far over the week- you are so much better than Google! I’ve just found the stages of my mums cancers, we might have been told but I never took it in or understood until now. There’s one right of hypo...
Hi, my mum has been advised to stop chemo as she has suffered serious side effects. She is stsge 4 osaphagus cancer. This has come as a real shock. Has anyone else had any similar experiences? Thank you
My husband has stage 4 cancer and was diagnosed just under 2 years ago. Recently he went through radiotherapy and suffered a stroke. 3 weeks ago he had a heart attack. I felt I was managing my anxiety but now I find I’m worried most days. I’ve been off...
My father is 80, he has just finished 10 days of radiotherapy for squamous cell oesophageal cancer. He has lost so much weight and hardly eats or drinks anything due to the pain in his chest, throat He has energy drinks from the hospital to make up...
