Hi there,

I work in an endoscopy unit so my advice would be that if you aren't sure what they have said to your husband and neither is he then with his consent i would call the department to ask them to explain further. Its hard to take in information, espeically if the word cancer is mentioned. 

We give all our patients a written copy of thier reports to go home with and it's normally quite black and white. Obviously you have to wait for biopsy results to fully confirm a diagnosis but coming away being told you are being refered to a cancer unit but not being told it is a suspected cancer is scary and will obviously cause you a lot of potentially unwarranted stress. 

If a cancer or potential cancer is discussed with a patient then contact details of someone to contact should be provided for a scenario where you need reassurance and advice. 

If they have refered to ENT then I would assume they have seen something further up the GI tract that isn't classed as 'gastro', the reports we give also indicate where the biopsies are taken from but again they don't tend to like taking biopsies from a place outside of thier area/speciality. 

What a complete stress for you both, I'm really sorry this is happening to you. 

I'm not sure I have said anything useful other than don't sit in silence, call them and ask. 

I hope you get the answers you need x