Barrett's esophagus is a condition in which the esophagus, the muscular tube that carries food and saliva from the mouth to the stomach, changes so that some of its lining is replaced by a type of tissue similar to that normally found in the intestine. This process is called intestinal metaplasia.
While Barrett's esophagus may cause no symptoms itself, a small number of people with this condition develop a relatively rare but often deadly type of cancer of the esophagus called esophageal adenocarcinoma. Barrett's esophagus is estimated to affect about 700,000 adults in the United States. It is associated with the very common condition gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD.
hottips---Thank you for that information, I will look it up. I was searching the net all night long and early morning, so I will check out the information you have given. We are trying not to worry. Hopefully, it won't be cancer, but even at that, we just have to follow the treatment recommendation and hope for the best. Thanks again, Jessi.
Mamie---I really appreciate your kind words as well, and have relayed all of what is posted to Jackie. He had several things to attend to today, so I text message him everyone's good wishes, and he thanked me for them, and told me to thank everyone who had posted best wishes. Thank you.
"Recognizing the importance of early diagnosis and aggressive, definitive surgical intervention has brought about a dramatic decline in morbidity and mortality related to distal esophageal perforation.(2) Of the 41 patients in this study, 29 were diagnosed within 24 hours of perforation with a survival rate of 89.7%. The authors agree with others who espouse aggressive, definitive surgical therapy for patients who are diagnosed early and who demonstrate contrast extravasation. We also, however, unanimously support conservative therapy for microperforations without associated continuing contamination of mediastinal or pleural cavities. In our experience with four such patients managed conservatively, the survival rate was 100%."
Jessi---Thank you for posting your links above---I'm still reading, but so far, the information, I found, was reassuring. Thank you again for posting this.....dee
the reddidh-orange bump to the right top of thr hole is Barrets Lining which is either benign or cancer, they took a biopsy.
My prayers are with you...
UPDATE!!
UPDATE!!
No CANCER!!!