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My husband diagnosed 4 weeks ago -Esophageal Cancer- HELP

Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: Oct 2 6:12am | Replies (73)
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@colleenyoung

@deepdive1967, so glad you found help at Mayo Clinic. You were quite young when you were first diagnosed with esophageal cancer. What led to your diagnosis?

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mrgvw | @mrgvw | Sep 26 6:10am

I know you weren't asking me... but on our Zoom call yesterday, I discovered a guy who was diagnosed with EC because he went in with hiccups that wouldn't go away. Don't see that every day. His esophagectomy was in 2001 as well! Crazy!

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deepdive1967 | @deepdive1967 | Sep 29 6:34pm

I went to the Dr about persistent nausea that I thought was due to a bad gall bladder. The Dr verified that my gall bladder was indeed bad but said that something was telling him to scope me to look for a ulser, this decision saved my life. During the endoscopy they found the early stage tumor and recommended that I go straight to surgery...3 weeks later I did. If I had it to do over again I would have slowed things down and studied my options but in that moment everything was a blur and I trusted the Drs here to my detriment.

I should have made the trip to Mayo for a second opinion and had them handle all surgeries and treatment.

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