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Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: 4 days ago | Replies (21)
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Did they perform a mckeown surgey or ivor lewis? I'm also wondering considering your chemoradiation worked, why did they still administer immunotherapy?
Thank you for sharing and also your resilience and optimism gives me hope. My mother is not as fit, but I think should she take the journey, she could manage. I'm still trying to share all this information for her to make up her mind. The surgeon has suggested to do an endoscopy first, post her positive first pet scan results.
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Hi there,
They performed Ivor Lewis surgery. The immunotherapy question is a good one. Although the pathology testing showed no cancer, clear margins, HERS 2 negative and nothing in the lymph nodes, they still had me go through immunotherapy. Initially, I was diagnosed stage 3 locally advanced, but after surgery, a different oncologist said that I was stage 4 because micro cancer cells were on the removed tumor and one lymph node. Since I was on a Folfox clinical trial, I believe they were adamant to follow the pre-determined protocol of chemo radiation, Ivory Lewis esophogectomy and Opdivo. Frankly, Opdivo caused a lot more problems than it solved. Although, I guess I'll never really know? Will the surgeon try to remove the tumor via endoscopy or are they just taking a look? Also, it's helpful, I'm happy to answer any questions via phone too. 262-510-9883. Take care.