Hi All
My uncle was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in September 2018. There was no operation offered as it had spread to lymph nodes. He got 2 rounds of chemotherapy but this didn’t do much. So two months ago he got in a stent to open it up to allow him to eat as this was really possible, he was only able to eat soft foods that would get stuck or he was sick.
He has had a sore back for about 3-4 months, the doctors was putting this down to being sick with not being able to eat so said it was muscular pain. After a number of trips to doctors they got him an urgent MRI scan on Monday within 2 hours the hospital had phoned to get him ASAP to get emergency radiotherapy as he has a mass on his spine and if something wasn’t done quick he would loose power to legs and this won’t come back. He has had trouble going to the toilet is this due to the tumour on the spine? The cancer has also spread to the bone.
Is there anything else left to try or is this the final thing? If so how long can he live with secondary bone cancer? Like would it be months or weeks left?
My uncle lives with my granny and granda as he’s not married and I am his only niece and would like to know what we have left as a family?
Thank you
