Hi, my dad is terminal with stage 4 Esophageal cancer with metastases to the liver/lymph nodes. He also has pulmonary embolisms in the lung and his tumours have previously been bleeding. We have had 3 ER admissions in the last month and he is becoming very weak. Despite seeing a psychologist and being on antidepressants I have a huge amount of anxiety and worry....knowing my dad will die but not when or how. It’s really affecting me. Anyone have any strategies for how to deal with all of this ? TIA ... View more

Hi there, Still in shock. Father recently went for routine Prostate bloods which showed up an anomaly. Then he had scans which showed lesions in all lobes of his liver which they have indicated is metastases (primary currently unknown). Bone scans indicated no spread to the bones. He was not exhibiting any symptoms of sickness at all. We have a biopsy this week then the Oncologist the week after.  What I wanted to know was what is the  likely journey from here ? Is there any possibility it may not be secondary cancer and they are only using biopsy to confirm or are they using this to try and find the primary. What is average prognosis for him given the above info ?  Really stressed and upset TIA ... View more