Hi all,

My brother has been battling throat cancer (supraglottis) for nearly 3 years now. His tumour was diagnosed inoperable over 12 months ago, amd he is now terminal stage 4.
He is struggling to speak as it is growing, amd also beginning to compromise his airway. So now, they are going to debulk his tumour next week. From what I am reading this is to prevent him needing an emergency tracheotomy at some stage, and is relatively successful.

However, he tells me he will only be in hospital as a day patient? I found this odd anyway, and even more so when I have read a study on it which says the average hospital stay following this is 17 days.

Has anyone had this done?How long did you stay in hospital?