I want to know about the treatment for food pipe cancer, my mother age 70 weight 43, earlier 25 years back suffered from lungs infection( left lung 75% collapsed), pataient of hyper acidity and high blood pressure, having difficulty in eating food(swallow prob),
Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. Treatment of any cancer is based on its staging. And this stands true for esophageal cancer. So please get done CT neck with thorax to see exact size of tumor and local spread. Also get done PET SCAN to see for distal metastases. By all these staging can be determined. If distal metastases are present than it is considered as stage 4 cancer. It is inoperable, and only treatment option is palliative chemotherapy and radiotherapy. But if stage 1, 2 or 3 is there than surgical options are available along with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. So better to consult oncologist first and discuss all these.