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Oesophageal cancer screening

Loopy42
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I’m getting increasingly saddened reading over and over theses heartbreaking messages of families suffering due to this terrible cancer . I lost my partner of 23 years in November last year , he was 47. He was told he was curable to start with ,but due to all the scans , tests , laparoscopies and then finally chemo  12 weeks later !!! The cancer had spread everywhere . I honestly think patients should be offered immediate surgery . How it’s deemed feasible to give someone chemo when they can’t eat and are losing weight rapidly is a recipe for disaster . 

It seems very obvious to me that not enough research is being done into this cancer as treatments haven’t changed for decades and it’s one of the toughest ones to beat . No one knows how to treat the mucus issues which really make living with the cancer horrific for both patients and carer s alike . 

My point is I really think it’s about time screening was offered for this in the same way we screen for bowel cancer . If caught early this disease can be beaten and many families wouldn’t have to go through this god awful time . 

 

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  • Hi Loopy42

    I agree with everything you have said.  This is such a tricky cancer to detect until it's too late (in many cases).  It is one of the fastest growing, in terms of number of diagnoses, in the western world and one of the most fatal, in terms of patients dying from it, and yet it is woefully under researched.  The problem is, of course, funding.  And whilst oesphageal cancer is huge in terms of numbers dying from it, it does not have the PR machine behind it that Bowel and Breast cancer have, not to take anything away from either of those cancers or to cause offence - just stating a fact..  I've sent you a friend invite if you want to "talk".

    Ruth

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  • Hi Loopy42

    I agree with everything you have said.  This is such a tricky cancer to detect until it's too late (in many cases).  It is one of the fastest growing, in terms of number of diagnoses, in the western world and one of the most fatal, in terms of patients dying from it, and yet it is woefully under researched.  The problem is, of course, funding.  And whilst oesphageal cancer is huge in terms of numbers dying from it, it does not have the PR machine behind it that Bowel and Breast cancer have, not to take anything away from either of those cancers or to cause offence - just stating a fact..  I've sent you a friend invite if you want to "talk".

    Ruth

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