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Living life after treatment and surgery for Esophageal Cancer.

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@dave1958

Does anyone have this surgery with success? Sounds like it's best not to have it

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mrgvw | @mrgvw | May 17 6:40am

Yes... many do have "success"... but then again, it depends what you mean by success. If being alive is success... ok, I suppose that is one thing. Never seeing your cancer again, that is another. QoLife... that is another. A long slow recovery... yup, it does take awhile... so... does that factor in to your consideration of success? The problem is, you don't get to take a few different roads at the same time....and see which one is the best way to go.

I'll contact you privately, and we can really discuss the EC post-op journey... patient to patient. Us patients talk differently to each other than our doctors talk to us. But I don't fault our many doctors... they simply haven't lived it.

Gary

I'll contact you privately

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | May 22 6:19pm

Hi @dave1958, how are you doing on proton beam therapy and chemo? What chemo regimen are you having?

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