What Is Oesophago Gastrectomy?
An Oesophago-Gastrectomy – Your Surgeon Removes the Top of Your Stomach and the Part of the Oesophagus Containing Cancer. What Is Oesophago Gastric?...
an oesophago-gastrectomy – your surgeon removes the top of your stomach and the part of the oesophagus containing cancer.
What is Oesophago gastric?
Oesophago-gastric cancer: the care you should expect
Oesophago-gastric cancer means cancer in the stomach (called gastric cancer) or the oesophagus, the long tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach (oesophageal cancer). More rarely, it can happen where the oesophagus joins the stomach.
What happens if you have your esophagus removed?
After it is removed, the esophagus is rebuilt from part of your stomach or part of your large intestine. Most of the time, esophagectomy is done to treat cancer of the esophagus or a severely damaged stomach.
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