 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Tami,
My neighbors daughter had esphogeal cancer and they replaced the entire esophogus with a reconstruction from her stomach. It eas truly a miraculous surgery as esophogeal cancer is a very tough one to beat. She has to eat frequent smaller meals as a result of the reduction of her stomach. It doesn't sound as if your mothers reconstruction would be as radical as that.
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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