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Subject: Esophagus cancer Dear Sirs; I am posting this in your forum because the gastroenterology Doctors wasn't taking questions. My brother ,age 57, had an operation for esophagus cancer almost three years ago. They took out his entire esophagus and pulled his stomach up behind his heart and attached it to his throat. He has had a lot of trouble ever since. ater the surgegy he retured to his heart doctor and he found that a staple had been left in his throat. that doctor removed it and has been treated my brother for his throat ever since. He gets invection in his head and sinus all the time. When they work he feel alot better. Now to my point just resently my brother was in an automobil accident where they had to give him a cat scan when they did this, they found two more staples in his lower stomach. His doctor says he can remove one but the other is enbeded too far to risk it. My brother and I feel that these staple are what s causeing his invections and making him sick all the time. He has a metelic taste in his mouth all the time. he has to have his troat widened every so often also. What effect can these staples cause my brother. It seem dangerous to me. He didnt sue the first time but I think he should this time ,I think the doctors just sewed him up to just die. and thats what makes me angery. Please answer about what these staples can do to him? thank you Pat
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