Endoscopy

Today I had an endoscopy, not my favourite procedure. Bearing in mind that 10 days ago I had a CT scan but I thought they were gathering as much information as possible before surgery. However, bearing in mind that I had a 3cm long cancer growth in the bottom third of my esophagus last November and had trouble eating and swallowing, today's endoscopy couldn't find the cancer. It would appear that my single dose of chemotherapy did it's job and got rid of the cancer. This I didn't expect but it does explain why I have been back to normal eating anything with no swallowing difficulties. When the supervising endoscopist told me this it was quite an emotional moment for me. He showed me the pictures form inside my esophagus and indeed it was clear. The initial theory is that I was probably very sensitive to the cancer drugs which is why I felt so ill and at the same time so was the cancer which helped enormously to get rid of it. I am now waiting for my care team to let me know now what the next stage is likely to be. No surgery now, I am a very lucky man. However ther is no such thing as a free lunch and there are a couple of residual issues I am still sorting out with my GP.