So very sorry lv annie x c
Hi Rarelion
I’m so sorry for your loss. I too feel heartbroken and alone with regards to the future.
It seems that late diagnosis and rapid decline is happening all the time with this cancer.
Sending love to you too.
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Sadly oesophagus cancer you only have a 5% chance of surviving even with the chemotherapy the large operation that they have to go through and then chemotherapy again you have to get five years to be able to survive Beyond the five years My husband had the chemotherapy the large operation the chemotherapy again but sadly still lost his life. My soulmate I’ve lost I will never be the same 47 years we were together if someone told him to walk through fire and you would be cured he would’ve done that. You lose a part of yourself when you lose your soulmate never going to be the same 10 months he’s been passed now it’s like it happened yesterday. My condolences to all of you hard road to go down.
Hi, the survival rate depends on the tumour grade and the health of the person . Gary was an extremely fit and healthy 58 year old who never smoked and lived a healthy life style. We know 3 people who have survived for 5,7 and 14 years from this cancer, these were no where near Gary’s fitness . He was putting a TV on the wall himself the day before the port was fitted. I have since read that port o cath’s increase the risk of pneumonia which increases the risk of malignant pleural effusion which Gary suffered within weeks of the port insertion. If they had used a cannula then this may never have happened, if the doctor had referred him for a camera earlier then his chance of survival would have been much greater. Instead that tumour grew for 5 months resulting in lymph nodes being effected.
Mark was very fit he was a builder. Never smoked lived a healthy life style. When diagnosed they said they caught it in the early stages. He also had a port fitted. And after chemotherapy he used to come home with a pump on which lasted another 24 hours and then we go back to Castle Hill to get it taken off and flushed through. I just think the whole experience of going through what we did and the hospice really scarred you for life. Very hard to have a normal day without breaking down and crying. Life is cruel sometimes it takes the good ones.