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Esophageal Cancer

Archives for August 2014

Endoscopy after surgery?
Hi, My husband Jeff is an almost 3 year survivor of EC, he had his surgery in September of 2011, his last scan was NED. Back in January he had to have an endoscopy becuase he was given iron which set off a severe GERD attack. Spent hours in the ER for pain management. The first endoscopy found some inflamation, but the…
Stage IV GE Junction, metastasis
My husband is an otherwise healty 64 year old who was diagnosed with Stage III, N1, M0 in Feb 2013. He had the standard protocol chemo for this, then radiation. Surgery removed the tumor and several nodes in October at UAB. He did really well, then did the follow up chemo starting in Jan (I think--I'm a bit scattered right…
Post-Surgery
Hello, All! My dad had an esophagectomy almost four weeks ago and has done really well. He is currently having some difficulties with recovery, though, and I thought I'd check in with you all to see if you have any suggestions: *The coughing - which I know seems to be very common with many of you who have experienced this…

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