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Living life after treatment and surgery for Esophageal Cancer.

Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: Jun 10, 2024 | Replies (84)
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@mrgvw

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 18, 2024

@mrgvw, I appreciate your contacting people privately. However, I’d like to underline the benefit of sharing in the group discussions. By posting in the discussions in the Esophageal Cancer support group many members, including people who do not post, benefit from from your knowledge and experience and others can chime in as well.

You're so right that patients who have lived it know a lot and can help people prepare for what to expect. Thank you for your willingness to share.

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