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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  : I sympathize with the difficulties your brother is going through, however
  : your questions should really be directed towards his GI surgeon, who
  : performed the initial procedure.
  : Thanks