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Has anyone decided not to have surgery after the first round of chemo?
Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: Mar 17 11:27pm | Replies (19)Comment receiving replies
My mother was diagnosed at age 70 very healthy otherwise, and considering not doing surgery due to fear of complications and decrease quality of like afterwards. I think it would be helpful to hear and discuss with others who have walked this path!
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@haileybdl I’m 6wks post surgery. My situation was more complicated because I had a gastric-bypass 20 years ago. I am also 70 in relatively good health prior to cancer diagnosis last July. I’ve had 4 rounds of FLOT and immunotherapy. The chemo treatments were effective BUT the surgery probably saved my life. I was T3N1M0. They removed the tumor most of my esophagus/gj. The doctors were convinced that they could find my original stomach and reattach it as my new esophagus. Yes surgery is hard. Very hard. But my family wanted a fight. Side effects for me were minimal. My surgery was minimally invasive laparoscopic. I have 15 little holes in my abdomen and side but they are almost all healed. I had no pain. Never took the Rx for pain. Everyone is different don’t give up because of fear or worse the anticipated what ifs.