Tami,

My husband's ENT also told him he could not be dilated. We have an appointment at the Univ of Chicago on the 24th. The head and neck surgeon there has much success. Hopefully, surgery will come after. Many patients were told the same thing as you and I and are now eating. Memorial Sloan Kettering is very good at this procedure. Any head and neck surgeon at a large head and neck cancer facility should be more familiar with this than a local ENT. Please don't give up easily on opening the esophagus before going for the more radical and invasive ressection.

Joni