Information for People with Oesophageal Cancer

Some information for people in case they want to have it

The Ivor Lewis Method:

Please do not visit these sites if you are at all squeamish!

• http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/surgery/EsophagealCarcinoma/12E.html
• http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/vol45_5/4550006.htm
• http://www.vesalius.com/graphics/archive/archtn.asp?VID=773&nrVID=772
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgicmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10075357&dopt=Abstract
  
• Definitely NOT for the squeamish
• P. S. you will need a medical dictionary for some of the words. After all my degrees I still have no idea what some of them mean.

One of the options for assisting people with this form of disease and its consequences is to have a place in which people can discuss their own situation, ask their questions and obtain information from others who are in the same boat.

There is such a site in the USA which is called the EC Café at http://www.eccafe.org/

Within the ACT there is also a wonderful site which presents a one stop shop for cancer sufferers and this at:
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~string/listing.htm

Try it you will find it useful.

There is NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN STUDY of Oesophageal Cancer underway
ASK YOUR DOCTOR about whether you can and/or should participate.
You can find out more at :
http://www.qimr.edu.au/research/labs/adeleg/

http://www.qimr.edu.au/research/labs/adeleg/barrets.html
and especially at:
http://www.acs.qimr.edu.au/menu/faq.html this URL providing information for participants!

http://www.acs.qimr.edu.au/menu/oes/index.html

In addition to the above, there is also information about clinical trials in the USA which can be located at:
http://www.nci.nih.gov/Search/SearchClinicalTrialsAdvanced.aspx

To use this site it is necessary to have an idea of how to use a search engine and to know the stage of the disease that you are looking for.