Esophageal Cancer Support Group

There are many responses about "not a candidate for surgery". What is the general criteria to be a candidate for an esophagectomy? Husband has stage...

Hello everyone. I just joined this group yesterday on behalf of my husband. Stage 3 esophagus cancer. 5 rounds of chemo and 28 sessions of...

Esopagectomy was 3/29/23. Needed no chemo/radiation. Swallowing is good. Hard to consume 2400 calories because my stomach seems upset all the time. Been doing all...

in the last 3 days my esophagus has been extremely sore and enflamed from the 28 radiation treatments, last rad 7 days ago...i am now...

I am concerned with a delay for surgery after my treatment with chemoradiation. What are the standard wait times before surgery. Is it 8 weeks,...

My 77 year old husband was diagnosed with esophageal cancer last March. Since then he has gone through a regimen of 5 day per week...

My husband completed treatment for esophageal cancer (surgery, then chemotherapy and radiation) a couple months ago. He is still having frequent bouts of diarrhea after...

2 weeks ago my husband has an esphogeal tumor removed. He went through chemo and radiation before the surgery. After surgery he had a catheter...

I have stage 1 esophagus cancer. Not sure what treatment I will be having chemo, radiation, immunotherapy or resectioning. I have other health issues (diabetes,...

My sister was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer and has lost a lot of weight. She has a feeding tube in her stomach and...

Hi all, my sister (38 years old, non smoker, living in Germany) got diagnosed 9 months ago with Stage4 EC in the upper part of...

Are there any esophageal adenocarcinoma signet ring cell survivors here? My husband was diagnosed Dec '23 as stage 3. He completed 6 rounds of carboplatin/paclitaxel...

Dad (69) had been to different doctors complaining of pain when swallowing (diagnosed with dysphagia and given Omeprazole) for about a year before he was...

My husband was diagnosed in January and was staged T2N2M0. The oncologist said he was stage 4. I do not understand that. He has had...

Today they put in my husband’s chemo port, j-tube, radiation markers, and do laparoscopic exploration. I’m glad we’re moving forward but also very nervous. The...

In December of 2020 I was diagnosed with stage 3 Esophageal Cancer. After chemo and radiation in February and March of 2021, I had surgery...

yesterday i received news that my pet scan shows a small nodule in my lung and a suv3 gastrohepatic lymph node...so instead of stage 2...

My husband was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in Jan 2023. His cancer has spread to the top of his stomach. He has had constant bloating...

Hello troops. Does anyone have any good news about their treatments? All I've been reading are horror stories. Not very encouraging at all. I'm on...

Its been 18mo since the surgery. I've completed chemo, radiation and now 12 mos. of immunotherapy.. We've been through all the expected and a great...