muscle layer

Dear Lord, The endoscopy I had last Fri. showed at least one more cancerous nodule in the esophagus. The doc did a cap and banding of it to kill the tissue. My understanding is that after the banding, that nodule was removed. This time, the cancer was starting to invade the muscle layer. 6 mos...

Dear Lord, I'm being sent to a thoracic surgeon on 11/11. The esophageal cancer appears to be within the mucosal layer only, which is the better news. My hope is that the surgeon can do what is called a mucosal resection. My understanding of the research is that affected sections of the...