Generally the overall 5-year survival rate for esophageal cancer or esophagus cancer remains approximately 20-25% for all stages. The survival rate also depends on the spread of the disease whether it includes the lymph nodes or not.
Esophageal cancer or esophagus cancer patients without lymph node involvement have a significantly better prognosis and 5-year survival rate compared to patients with involved lymph nodes. Unfortunately patients with Stage IV esophageal cancer or esophagus cancer are associated with a 5-year survival rate of less than 5%.
Hopefully they caught it very early, because if caught in the early stages, the survival rate goes up to 80-90%.
Fight it out, Hitch!
I'm reading Hitch-22, incidentally. Quite a good piece of work.
I can't see him letting any degenerative illness go the distance, when he decides the time is up he'll do the deed himself. I hope it won't come to that though, he's fun to read amd listen to.
You hear that Mr. Anderson?... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death... Goodbye, Mr. Anderson...
About me: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require.
pawiz wrote:If the poor sod kicks the bucket, how long until we start reading reports of his death bed conversion?
I give it 3 hours before the liars for jebus start plying their trade.
Probably starting with his brother.
I did wonder if they are brothers.
Alas, despite the obvious differences, the family resemblances are far to striking to be denied. Peter looks and sounds exactly like Christopher would do if he'd lived most of his life with an iron rod stuck up his backside.
About me: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require.
About me: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require.
Coito ergo sum wrote:I'm reading Hitch-22, incidentally. Quite a good piece of work.
Want.
Me too. It's on my Amazon wish list.
As it has not materialised I'm still wishing.
Downloaded it to my Barnes & Noble Nook $10. Done.
The last interview he did right after Hitch-22 was released he said his next book would be about the 10 Commandments.
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it. ~Christopher Hitchens~
Oh, thank you Ani, I hadn't seen that! I just adore that man.
One of the things we talked about when I got to sit down with him for a drink was that he had a dream of retiring and becoming a gentleman viticulturist and vintner, somewhere in California. I really hope he makes it through this so he can realize that dream.
There's only two options for him - and that is he will never drink and smoke again and be lucky enough to survive, or he will die. The reality may be grim.
In general, the prognosis of esophageal cancer is quite poor, because so many patients present with advanced disease: The overall five-year survival rate (5YSR) is less than 5%. Individualized prognosis depends largely on stage. Those with cancer restricted entirely to the esophageal mucosa have about an 80% 5YSR, but submucosal involvement brings this down to less than 50%. Extension into the muscularis propria (muscular layer of the esophageus) has meant a 20% 5YSR and extension to the structures adjacent to the esophagus results in a 7% 5YSR. Patients with distant metastases (who are not candidates for curative surgery) have a less than 3% 5YSR.
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it. ~Christopher Hitchens~
About me: I have prehensile eyebrows. I speak 9 languages fluently, one of which other people can also speak. When backed into a corner, I fit perfectly - having a right-angled arse.
As I said above, a friend of mine is going through exactly the same thing right now. in fact, he started his second course of chemo today.
In his case, the tumour was found early and is operable. About 2 weeks after this course of chemo, they will be cutting out about half of his oesophagus and stretching the stomach upwards to replace it. He is lucky to have the country's foremost expert in this particular operation doing the cutting and his chances are good - not great - but good. He's in the 80-90% 5YSR group.
He was told that if they had found it as soon as 6 months later, it would have been inoperable and almost certainly fatal within a few years. I just hope Hitch was as lucky.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. House MD Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view. Sandy Denny This is the wrong forum for bluffing Paco Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish! Calilasseia I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants. Twoflower Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse Millefleur
