Welcome to OCF! You will find lots of info ans support here. Read and learn about your illness and what you can do to best prepare and advocate for yourself. There are many pages with important info and things to ask your doc on the main OCF pages. Read the posts and see what others in your situation experience.

Best thing you can do is find the best medical team you can and who you are comfortable with then go with what they propose. At a comprehensive cancer center (CCC) you will have top notch physicians who work together as a team based approach to each individual case. Together the specialists will prepare and individual treatment plan.

A feeding tube sounds shocking but its fairly common. There are 2 sides to this and many online spats have been over what I call the PEG wars. Im pro peg but also encourage patients to eat and drink as much as they can and keep doing it throughout their treatments. In my opinion, its better to have one and not need it than to be in the position of needing an emergency peg tube installed due to malnutrition and dehydration. Always be prepared. There are hundreds of peg tube posts to read on the forum.

Buckle up, you have a long road ahead. We will be in your corner to help guide you along the way.




@ Don ..... I renamed and moved Jones's first post.