It depends what statistics you read. Some lump esophageal in with head and neck cancer. My only reservation would be the amount of support from like persons here since we don't have many esophageal cancer patients here. It's considered more of a gastro-intestinal cancer.

Here are some resources:

http://www.medhelp.org/HealthTopics/Esophageal.html
http://www.onconurse.com/factsheets/esophageal_resource.html

http://www.ontopofcancer.org/esophageal_cancer_support_group.php

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11697.cfm

There are many more - just do a Google search.

Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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