My husband has been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. The treatment offered is an oesophagectomy. We have met with the surgeon and information given to us was not encouraging. The statistics given were 1.5 Pc of patients do not survive the surgery,we are unsure what this actually means, could be dies during surgery,or after due to complicatiions,or maybe in however many years.very confusing and distressing. The anaesthetist says after the stress test he is 100pc fit but because of previous health issues would restrict this by 40pc.So how can he understand the risks and make a decision?