Lia813

From out of nowhere a routine colonoscopy found colon cancer in the sigmoid colon. I had my surgery 11/4 . 2 out of 5 lymph nodes were positive. So my schedule was prepared by the chemo dr and that very day I had an endoscopy and I have esophageal cancer. So the chemo for the colon was put off as the esophageal cancer is so agressive they need to deal with it now. Both the surgeon and the chemo dr are very puzzled at this combination, never having seen it in their practice. I have had every test there is for the esophagus and the colon and they are not related ,not metastisized from each other. Does anybody have this ? I have to go in on Mon. for pre admission and to see the anesthesiologist and to have sugery on Wed. 12/15 to have a port surgically implanted in my chest and a feeding tube implanted in my stomach. Then they will try to shrink the esophageal tumor with chemo and rads as it is not safe to operate on it now. It has broken thru the esophageal walls and is too risky to operate on right now. Also on the CT scan the surgeon sees a spot on my liver. It might be a cyst , but might not he says. I do not have a clue why all this is happening . I have no cancer in my family and have not lost a bit of weight nor do I look sick. I do have painful swallowing from a motility disorder of the esophagus for a yr, but this cancer appears to have only been here about 4 weeks. I am really scared. I just don't know how many primary cancers a person can survive. Does anybody have any answers? Lia