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What was your experience immediately following RT/chemo?
Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: Jul 18 8:01pm | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
Do you have a G tube... or a J tube? If you are heading to surgery I will assume you have a J tube.
Yes, dark times right now... but hang tough... the chemoradiation will do its job... and a couple of weeks after treatments stop, taste buds come back, sore throat improves greatly, etc. Scan will show you are ready for surgery.
Two immunotherapies... to be added in now? What stage are you? Are we talking Keytruda, Herceptin, Ramucirumab, Opdivo? Which ones? And while they could cause you no issues... they just might.
You have my number... give me a call.
Gary
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Hi Gary, I have stage 4 Mets to spine , small liver spots and chest nodes. Type is adenocarcinoma. Surgery is off the table. I have a g tube because my stomach isn’t involved and surgeon said he’s not saving it for pseudo esophagus. The esophagitis, says the oncologist, is a. result of the 10 radiation sessions I just completed in hopes of achieving pain control (which it has not - no improvement although peak results are expected to manifest about a month after radiation ends.) IDK what the drugs that attack two separate mutations are, but they should be giving me them during 3rd chemo infusion week. The oncologist believes they will be game changing, and I’m anxious to start taking them.