Thank you for your reply. My husband, John, had to have his surgery before chemo. I know that's almost unheard of and it's hard to explain... He had a biopsy done on an esophageal mass which came back negative. His doctor, however, said he ought to have another biopsy done because the mass looked too much like cancer to ignore. This biopsy came back negative, also, but the mass was growing rapidly.. She had oncologists look at the endoscopy pictures . They were sure it was cancer. We had to jump through a lot of hoops to get Medicare to pay for a PET scan which confirmed malignancy. By this time we had lost a lot of time, and the surgeon decided it would be best to go ahead and remove it, and do chemo and radiation when he recovered from the surgery. It' been 2 years now since his surgery and chemo/radiation. A routine follow-up endoscopy showed that his cancer had recurred in the same spot in the esophagus. He is now on a folfox protocol. He is so nauseated that he can hardly eat anything, and has lost down to under 100 lbs. A feeding tube might be coming very soon, as the prescription anti nausea prescription medications aren't helping at all. It's good to hear you are able to do yours at home. I hope we can work that out.