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Esophageal Cancer

Archives for May 2010

Thanks everyone!!
Hi, I finally feel I'm able to look at the site again since my dad passed, tomorrow will be 2 weeks. It has been so hard seeing him so sick at the end. Hospice was a great help and I feel he passed comfortably. I know he's not suffering anymore. This cancer is just so horrible. I want to thank all of you for your support…
Please pray for BIL
Hello everyone. I usually only post on the uterine or ovarian boards. (lost my mother to uterine last year). Anyhow, my BIL , Dan, has EC. He was diag. last year, stage IV and he is terminal. In fact he's in the hospital now with a blood clot. At first they thought he had stomach cancer but it started in the esophagus. He…
Went to lung dr and Gi dr
Well I saw the lung dr Monday. She is very thorough and said that my lung problems are not one thing but many factors: some COPD, still have some pneumonia, asthma? and put me on a neubulizer for home and ordered all kinds of tests, blood, lung functions, x rays etc. But said she was going to take serial cxrs to see if the…
Radio Frequency Ablation
Well, we heard from Dr Middlebrook in San Antonio and he suggested that we contact MD Anderson to see if the oncologist would refer Jim to their Interventional Radiology Dept. for Radio Frequency Ablation. He felt it would be a good procedure for the lesions to his liver and is generally an outpatient procedure. I made the…
prayers needed :(
dear CSN folks I feel bad requesting this but please keep my uncle in your prayers tonight. My dad has actually been doing well with his post EC chemo-red-surgery treatment. BUT my uncle who is my dad's younger brother-recently also diagnosed with EC is not doing well. His kidneys have shut down and he has other health…
Good news from PET
We had our appt with onc. to follow up on PET last friday. I am happy to say after two rounds of chemo the cancer has shrunk a lot they said! That was very nice to hear. The plan right now is to continue the chemo and bring the surgeon and rad docs back in to see what they want to do from here. Nancy
Newbie - dad with newly diagnosed stage 4
Hello everyone, My dad (70) has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer, that has spread to lungs, stomach and liver. His gen. practitioner reviewed his chart this past Wednesday and estimated that he had 3 months left. He's been having trouble eating for a few weeks now, and it's gotten worse. Loss of…
please read if you have had radiation treatments
Hello, My father received 10 radiation treatments ending 4/23/10 We were told yesterday that the radiation treatments will have burned away his taste buds and he will not have any ability to taste flavor even if he heals enough to be able to swallow and handle food by the mouth.We are waiting to find out the date of this…
dad update!
So we are finally settled in for good in Houston Tx. We have been back and forth for tests, but now we are here for 5 and a half weeks for treatment. He will have a chemo pump 24hrs mon-fri, in combination to radiation 5 days a week. He will also have a different type of chemo for an hour on monday. He was not a candidate…
2 questions for all you experts
2 questions: 1. Jim has had neuropathy since the last week of radiation/chemo. He was on Oxaliplatin and 5FU. Does this go away or is it something he'll have from now on. Both feet are affected, the left one more than the right. Toes and the balls of both feet are numb, as well as his fingertips. They always feel cold to…
New to the group
Hello and thank you William Marshall for the welcome comment in another post. I read in one of the posts that you are interested in how people are first diagnosed. My husband went into his internist over 2 yrs. ago for his routine physical. It was noted that he had a little anemia in his blood work. The dr. sent him in for…
Husband starts 2nd round of chemo tomorrow
Well were off for round 2 of chemo this week. He has done amazingly well with the first round of chemo and all the radiation so far. My husband is in the National Guard and has still been able to participate in PT (except for the week of chemo, he was really fatigued with that) and we work out most every day. He does have…
Coughing
So I have had 18 radiation treatments to my esophagus with 12 more to go as well as 33 to my neck with 6 carboplatin treatments. One of many problems is a persistant cough, it feels like a dry spot in my trought. Any stories or sugestions. Brad
Waiting to hear
We are waiting to hear from the Dr in San Antonio about Theresphere therapy. He will be back in the office on Tuesday to review the scans sent over from MD Anderson. Still haven't heard from them about the HER-2 gene. Seems like we do so much waiting. Sally

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