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Esophageal Cancer: Surgery Or Not?
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My dad has completed chemo and radiation and this is what the last pet scan he had said. Can someone help decipher. Should he still continue with surgrey?
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What was his initial staging? What depth of solid esophageal tumor penetration did he have... T3?
Assume he did the CROSS protocol... Carboplatin and Taxol... along with his radiation treatments?
Today... if a near complete pathological response is seen, there is a school of thought to skip esophagectomy (for now) and simply remain closely monitored (scans every 3 months?... and blood monitoring). We have some on our twice-weekly Zoom calls doing this. But... if you really want to have a chance to be done with EC... you have the esophagectomy. It's what most of us do. I'm in Irvine, and was stage 3 over 5 years ago. I did the CROSS protocol, esophagectomy, and then a year of immunotherapy... all at age 61. I'm 66 now... pretty much back to normal.