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Esophageal Cancer

Archives for March 2015

nutrition
Does anyone have any good nutrional snacks or meals
cough/sleeping problems
My brother is having problems with a cough and not able to sleep after his surgery. Does anyone have any suggestions
Surgery complication
My brother was diagnosed with E C stage 2 in Oct 2014 and went through chemo and radiation treatments. He had a transhiatis esophaectomy on March 5 2015. The surgery lasted 5 hrs and everything went well and was discharged 10 days later. He had a very large opening in his abdomen tbat needed a dressing change 2 times a day…
survival age after diagnosis
I noticed Donna70 did roll call of survival age after diagnosis of ec in 2010. It was a wonderful concept. I was wondering if we can do the roll call to give hope to myself and lot of other people on this forum. Please mention stage, type of ec squamous or adenocarcinoma. And which year was it diagmosed. I will start out…
Extreme stomach pain and nausea - had to stop chemo/radiation
My husband has stage 2 (N0M0) EC for which he has been receiving 3 chemo drugs (cisplatin, another I can't remember the name of and 5FU on a pump). He has also received 15 sessions of radiation. Shortly after the second round of chemo, he developped severe neuralgia in his hands and feet and then the stomach pain and…
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weakness fatigue 4 weeks post surgery
Husband was doing ok post surgery considering this a major surgery. Lately symptoms of weakness fatigue are becoming more. He walks in the morning about an hour. Feels better after walking . Then he starts feeling weak tired. Heart rate racing to 110. Feeling light headed. These symtoms are more so in morning. He is still…
Is natural way best or chemo and radiation?
Today I am going into surgery for pictures to be taken inside my body to see what stage I am inb ut Dr suspects that I am in stage 3 for I keep choking on food and could not eat I am only ablel todrink liquids and eat ice cream I am told that I might be in Stage 3 but want pictures to show more proof my stomache seems to…
2 cancers
Heres an update on what we have found out. After 3 doctors, biopsies, and numerous scans,we now know the original tumor was in fact Adenocarcinoma. After surgery in june he bumped his head, unhealed sore became enlarged, Grew into many more bumps, and lesions. Biopsies showed cancer, thought to be the EC metastasized.…

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