Colon and Esophagus cancer

They also have a hospital in Upland which is where i will be going.

 

I start radiation tomorrow. Dr. told me because of the location of some of the nodules in my left lung it's going to be 5 rounds of heavy
radiation on my right lung and 20 rounds of medium radiation on my left lung. UGH

 

I’ll never forget when they told me 28 total radiation 2 “boost”. Thinking damn how am I going to get through this! 1 day a a time.

 

God bless you. Prays for you

 

I just saw this tonight and thought of this thread. Dave Coulier from the Full House tv show was recently diagnosed. It's not colon or esophagus cancer, but stage 3 Non Hodgkins Lymphoma. I think my dad's NHL was stage 3 or 4 when he was diagnosed. I wish I knew what causes or caused it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy_PKOxeQVk

 

from my personal experience, all of my pre cancer screenings and post cancer surgery screenings have always done both a CT Chest and Abdomen scan. I'm surprised those weren't requested as follow ups. very sorry that you had to go thru that, but i am glad that you appear to be on the "good side" of this occurrence.

just FYI, at age 39 i was diagnosed with stage 2 colon cancer and had a partial colectomy with no ileostomy. I'm in my second year of surveillance post op.

 

The stage 1 colon cancer I had, surgery was considered “curative” they looked no further, no scans, no follow up screening. Hindsight I should have gotten a second opinion!