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Esophageal Cancer

Archives for April 2018

Good news!
I posted a while back about my mother, who was recently diagnosed with esophageal adenocarcinoma. She is 71 years old and didn’t even know she had Barrett’s Esophagus or acid reflux, since it was “silent reflux” with no symptoms. She found out about the cancer when she was diagnosed with anemia and went to a local hospital…
My Trip To Pittburgh
Well my turn around trip to Pitsburgh turned into 8 days. I got there the day as planned and of course screwed up my plane ticket. I actually flew into Phillidelphia. I do not know why I did that when I booked it but must not have been paying attention to closely when I got it. It was only a minor inconvience so I just…
China study re Effect of Hot Tea Consumption & Its Interactions W/Alcohol & Tobacco Use on the Risk
Hello friends~ Here's an interesting article you can read with your morning "coffee or tea". Hopefully, you're not starting out the day with alcohol as well! The referenced article #4 below my name is “interesting.” This is a study based in China. Among the many medical alerts I sign up for, this one came in this morning.…
Hx of uterine CA and dysphagia
I was DXd in 2014 with uterine cancer with adenocarcinoma, early grade/stage. The only treatment I needed at the time was a hysterecomy, but right before my surgery my GYN Oncologist wanted me to have an upper GI scope bc I had a few episodes of trouble swallowing food in my past since 2009, not frequent, but a few times.…
Anyone with experience of novel therapies or NGS
I have stage 4 EC post esophagectomy. looking for novel therapies in US or Holland eg T cell enhancement, how to use NGS results? Vaccines etc I am strongly Herceptin positive Thanks
April is EC Awareness month + results of small study showing KEYTRUDA helping LUNG cancer patients G
Hello friends ~ Well, better late than never I suppose. We haven’t mentioned it but the month of April is ESOPHAGEAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH! The official color for this cancer is “Periwinkle Blue”. Just thought I would share some great news as well about KEYTRUDA and the spectacular results from one small study involving…
Any ladies out there with EC?
Hello all, I was looking for posts from women who have personal experience with EC? It looks as if there is a higher % of men who have it. Wondering what your symptoms were that promted you to get it checked out? Thanks for any replies, judemo
Appetite and low grade fever
This is week 5 post esophagogastrectomy for my husband! He has been improving more every week in many ways, especially pain level decreasing! The thing that hasnt improved much however is his appetite! He doesnt feel very hungry and is just trying to take in calories to gain weight and strength! He is still on j tube…
Update to my Orgional Post
I finished my Chemo and Radiation 4 weeks ago. I met with my surgon here in Alaska this week and the PET Scane we did on Monday came back as no sign of cancer so I had a very good result from the Radiation and Chemo even though it did put me in the hospital for 6 days the day of ther last Radiation treatment. I lost almost…
"Sendeep"~KEYTRUDA (immunotherapy) approved 4 some gastric cancers plus info re Esophageal Cancer &
Dear “Sendeep” Your letter is a sad one, like so many others here. However, I note that you have written in a topic forum that began 5 years ago, and isn’t really active today. Only one lady, “Sandy1943” posted here in May of 2017. I know Sandy and she is still a survivor, and we have been “EC friends” for years, however…
Questions to ask after EUS
I posted here a few weeks ago about my mother, who was recently diagnosed with esophageal cancer. She has had all of the recommended scans and also had an endoscopic ultrasound at a hospital about an hour away from her house, which staged her cancer at T2N1M0. However, she has decided to have her treatment at Duke…

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