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Excessive Mucus with Esophageal Cancer
Does anyone suffer from excessive mucus after eating or drinking. I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer one year ago. I started off with chemo, which...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Feb 21 5:01pm
Foamy mucus: What helps with a g-tube?
My dad just had partial esophagectomy with Jejunal interposition, along with laryngectomy, thyroidectomy and partial tracheotomy with stoma for thyroid cancer. Surgery was almost a...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Jan 12, 2025
Why do people get excess mucus/phlegm after esophageal cancer surgery?
Hello my brother is having his EC on this tuesday. The post surgery mucas/phlem so many people discuss where does it come from, the stomache...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Feb 8 10:35am
18 months after Ivor Lewis op my husband has started feeling very ill
18 months after Ivor Lewis my husband has started feeling very nauseous in the mornings. He can’t eat breakfast until he has vomited awful amounts...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Mar 16 6:24pm
Esophageal cancer: How do you manage gastro and swallowing effects?
I have excessive burping, my throat is dry, burning throat, bloated stomach, acid going up and down my throat, sore throat, difficulty swallowing saliva not...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Sep 8, 2023
Which specialist to diagnose esophagus?
Which specialist to see for an esophagus eval? I have had frequent sore throats, 2 strictures removed, gerd, excess throat mucus (allergies), and often feel...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Aug 25, 2023
Really needing some hope and guidance right now
I’m a 45 year old healthy female other than what I’m about to say. I have been exhausted and had trouble swallowing food and drinks...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: May 9, 2025
GE Junction Tumor continues to bleed, what is normal to expect?
My 93yr old mother was diagnosed with GE junction tumor last fall and had started to spread to cardia of stomach. Too weak for surgery,...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Mar 16, 2025
Throat Radiation After-Effects, Aspiration & Suffocating Mucous
I am a 61-year-old woman that finished the last of 35 radiation treatments last March 2020. Since then, I have had pneumonia and other lung...
Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer
Last active: Mar 21, 2025
Anyone having excessive mucous problems following surgery .
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...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Oct 24, 2023
How to control spitting up of copious quantities of mucous daily?
My 81 year-old husband has Stage 4 esophageal cancer and is about to go into palliative care. He is a candidate for hospice because he...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Jul 27, 2025
Symptoms after chemo and radiation: Worried cancer is back?
My 75-year-old mother was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma (10 cm mass with distal thickening in the lower esophagus) back in June. She completed 6 weeks of...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Jan 14, 2025
18 months after esophageal Cancer Surgery, still on feeding tube
My husband was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer and after radiation and chemo treatment underwent surgery December 2022. He had a J-tube installed. His recovery went...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Apr 27, 2024
Hello, I’m In Need Of Advice
Hello, I am a almost 39 year old male who was diagnosed with Barrett’s Esophagus on St. Patrick’s Day 2011 when I was 27 years...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Sep 3, 2023
Need help with possible referrals. Please.
I've posted our story before. The update: My husband Dave had surgery on April 24th after Chemo and Radiation - a new conduit was created...
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Oct 10, 2025
FLOT toxicity
Has anyone experienced severe toxicity from round 1 of FLOT chemo? My husband had 1st round on 1/29 with pump removal in injection on 1/30....
Support Group: Esophageal Cancer
Last active: Feb 22 8:19pm