Kaykay,

As I mentioned in your other thread, my brother had a similar diagnosis. He had a clearly identifiable tumor in his esophagus that had tendrils or streamers of cancer that emanated from it that wrapped around the voice box.

Initially they thought it was just the tumor in the esophagus and did surgery to remove that. It was during surgery that the noticed the tendrils. They could not see these in the scans. They were at the end of a long surgery and could not go after all the tendrils at that time so they got what they could see and closed. After that they had him go through a full round of IMRT radiation to the voice box to get what remained of the tendrils.

It was rough going with both surgery and radiation but he made it through and is one year out with clear scans.