hi, sorry to hear about your husbands diagnois ,the waiting for answers is
probaly the hardest part on this roller coaster ride .it is good that your husband has not been sick from the chemo .is he still able to eat well? we
wern't told if my husband was a cadindate for the surgery untill after his chemo and radiation treatments and then only after his case was reviewed by the tumor board ...
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Started 3 months, 1 week ago by lhrowell
My husband was diagnosed 8 weeks ago with esphageal cancer. The tumor is 3 cm in the esp. and 2 cm in the stomach (total of 5 cm) with all of the local lymph nodes impacted. We are told it is very rare. It is called SMALL CELL CARCINOMA type of cancer. They said stage 4 or T1N3M1A. The PET scan did not show any spread to other organs but it has gone through the wall, lining and muscle of ...
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chevy87 replied 3 months, 1 week ago
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lhrowell replied 3 months, 1 week ago
Thank you so much for your reply. The waiting is hard. I never realized how tasking that could be.
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dfrost replied 2 months, 1 week ago
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I'm happily one of the long-term survivor data-points in these studies. Small-cell carcinoma of the esophagus is an aggressive cancer, but Memorial Sloan-Kettering, at least, is getting pretty good at treating it.
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