Hi Fortie,

I’m not currently undergoing treatment but I had a very positive and unusual outcome after starting EOX chemo in 2013. In late September/early October I was given a diagnosis of T3N3M1, with a very poor prognosis. 

Surgery and radio therapy were impossible due to the position of my primary which had grown around my aorta.

Apparently I was a super responder to the chemo. For years I was told it was only a matter of time before it grew back again. 

I was having six monthly then annual CT scans. Last year I asked my oncologist to view them in sequence to compare year on year. He did and then ordered a biopsys of the area. 

Amazingly, there was no detectable sign of cancer. That was six years after my diagnosis and being told I had as little as 8 weeks to live.

The only therapy I had was EOX chemo. No alternative or complementary treatments just chemo and an awful lot of good luck. 

I’d hate to raise false hope but whatever statistics doctors use are only valid for large cohorts of patients. There are always outliers, like me whose data is excluded because it skews the figures. 

Good luck!

Dave

Hi Davek

Congratulations on your successful treatment, Can I ask if you had squamous cell or adenocarcinoma, how big and where in the oesphagus?

My daughter has 8cm SCC tumour at the junction.

Hi Davek

Congratulations on your successful treatment, Can I ask if you had squamous cell or adenocarcinoma, how big and where in the oesphagus?

My daughter has 8cm SCC tumour at the junction.