As you all know Dennis was denied surgery and radiation because there is to much cancer in his esophagus. MD Anderson did their own Endoscope on the 31st and we went to his oncologist yesterday the 1st of Nov. She went over every thing and it is Def. Dennis is in Stage 4 The tumor has gone through the wall of the esophagus. He has a lot of Lymph Nodes up and down his esophagus that have cancer. She said remember the esophagus is round well the tumor has gone to 40% of the esophagus so that is one reason Dennis is having some difficulty swallowing. We are going to see another Dr. down at the main hospital on next Thur. and he is suppose to be a world wide expert on esophagus cancer. He has discovered a lot of the material that they do on patients all over the world. We will see what he says on Thurs.
She told us that Dennis will start on Chemo after seeing this Dr. The Dr. might put Dennis in a study with also getting Chemo. He is also going to have a port put in his chest sometime next week so when they do start Chemo he will be ready. She said that she feels that the Chemo will not get rid of all of it. Then Dennis will get off of it and then the cancer will come back eventually and then he will have to get more Chemo. She said this is what he will probably do the rest of his life. You can take Chemo as much as your body will allow. Eventually it could effect the liver or heart. Now will that be something in a year from now or 20 years only God knows when Dennis will go home with him. Even though it sounds grim I need and ask for everyone to keep us in your prayers because prayers and our faith is all we have and we have to keep a positive attitude and keep God at the top of our life.