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Esophageal Cancer

Conclusion

Arden's disease recurred after treatment with radiation therapy, surgery and chemotherapy. Early in the treatment course, his wife became pregnant, and he died 2 weeks after the birth of his little girl. His widow is employed as a waitress.

Arden presented after months of symptoms with invasive disease that had spread microscopically. In the remaining 13 months of his life, he had periods of good quality of life (by his own definition), as well as periods of distress from pain and fatigue.