I was recently diagnosed with metastatic esophageal cancer, and this is the story of how I eventually got diagnosed. I made this video share my story and with that hopefully help others get to a diagnosis sooner if they are experiencing similar symptoms.

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How I feel about my cancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as8T5RQrmMs
What is chemotherapy induced neuropathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43RQQpLnVhU
Things not to tell someone with cancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP08xMzQIb0

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-- I am not a medical professional, so please always go to your doctor if you have any concerns around symptoms you are experiencing. This is just my personal story about what went wrong with my diagnosis, and why it took so long for me to get diagnosed. I am sharing my story in the hopes of helping others find answers sooner, and to raise awareness around the difficulties of navigating the medical system when you are young and otherwise healthy, and a cancer diagnosis is so unlikely that it doesn't come up as something to be screened for. -

V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS, director of endoscopy at UCLA Health, and Paul A. Toste, MD, UCLA Health thoracic surgeon, discuss approaches to diagnosis and staging of esophageal cancer, endoscopic treatment of early-stage esophageal cancer and surgical treatment of esophageal cancer.

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Zev A. Wainberg, MD, co-director of the UCLA GI Oncology Program and professor of medicine, discusses appropriate staging and treatment of esophageal cancer and new drugs being developed for esophageal cancer.

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Holly Firfer takes a look at the connection between GERD & cancer.

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After being diagnosed with advanced esophageal cancer, James McKenzie sought treatment at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center (DF/BWCC).

Following chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Jon O. Wee, MD, Co-director, Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, performed robotic surgery, , to remove the tumor.

The Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer at DF/BWCC is one of the largest centers of its kind in the US. The Center includes medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists, gastroenterologists, radiologists, and pathologists who have decades of experience treating esophageal cancer and Barrett's esophagus. Our dedicated Thoracic Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and step-down unit (Thoracic Intermediate Care Unit = TICU) allow us to care for patients with esophageal cancer with expertise that focuses on preventing complications before they happen to achieve uneventful recovery and excellent outcome.

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Jerry Poisson, father and husband, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer over seven years ago and came to the University of Michigan and met thoracic oncology surgeon Dr. Mark Orringer who gave Jerry "bonus time" with his family. For more information on the U-M Thoracic Oncology program and in particular esophageal cancer visit www.uofmhealth.org/esophagealcancer or call 1-877-308-9111.

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DESCRIPTION: A randomized phase 2 clinical trial on the ability of strawberries to reverse the progression to esophageal cancer.

This is one of the most important papers I've seen recently. Why isn't this headline news? If there was instead some new drug that reversed cancer progression, you can bet it would be all over the place. But who's going to profit from revelations about berries? Other than, of course, the millions of people at risk for this devastating cancer. If you appreciate this website, please consider making a tax-deductible donation (https://nutritionfacts.org/donate/) to support my work.

The Ornish study to which I referred is Cancer Reversal Through Diet? (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/cancer-reversal-th This line of work was continued by the Pritikin Foundation in an elegant series of experiments that starts with Ex Vivo Cancer Proliferation Bioassay (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/developing-an-ex-v (along with the "prequel" Engineering a Cure http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/engineering-a-cure

I touched previously on esophageal cancer in Bacon and Botulism (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/bacon-and-botulism and Poultry and Penis Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/poultry-and-penis-

More on strawberries in Cancer Fighting Berries (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/cancer-fighting-be and Maxing Out on Antioxidants (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/maxing-out-on-anti My favorite way to eat them? My chocolate ice cream recipe (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/a-treatment-for-ch

If you missed the last two videos in this series, check out Which Fruit Fights Cancer Better? (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/which-fruit-fights and Cranberries versus Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/cranberries-versus Next, we continue the theme and close out with Black Raspberries versus Oral Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/black-raspberries-

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/strawberries-versu and he'll try to answer it!

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