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Suggest Treatment For Apparent Esophageal Cancer

my father is 90 years old, they did a scope today and found a mass and apparent esophageal cancer. Also a mass with a hiaetal hernia, any ideas of what they may propose to do. They will meet with doctor after a CT scan next week. he has lost weight the last 5 months, today blood pressure was 117/70, 140 pounds.
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GOOD evening. So your father has got cancer of esophagus. So first of all a CT scan is required to look if cancer has spread to other sites of body. Because that will change the treatment. If your father is healthy and the tumor is limited to esophagus then surgery and chemo will be done. If cancer has spread outside then only chemotherapy is the option.
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Suggest Treatment For Apparent Esophageal Cancer

GOOD evening. So your father has got cancer of esophagus. So first of all a CT scan is required to look if cancer has spread to other sites of body. Because that will change the treatment. If your father is healthy and the tumor is limited to esophagus then surgery and chemo will be done. If cancer has spread outside then only chemotherapy is the option.