Thank you again, Dr.Kaltari, for your help and knowledge.
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dermatologist did do repeated cutting out of the affected area on my Dad's back, which never healed over the course of several years & told my Dad it was a very slow moving squamous
skin cancer and not to worry about it.
Also, exactly a year ago, before his final illness this year, he was very sick with what his Dr. said was the
Shingles virus, bedridden for almost 3 months. He suffered a lot, and developed
fecal impaction which lasted a few weeks & was corrected by enemas administered by my Mother, because he was against going to hospital.
After recovering, he regained the 10 or 15 pounds he had lost, and was doing very well. He still worked in his garden and drove my Mom everywhere. He had a period of about 9 months of good health, until he started to rapidly lose weight, began to have difficulty swallowing, and
contracting
pneumonia, and even then did not want to be hospitalized until he was had to, because he was having a lot of breathing difficulty. But even just on antibiotics and saline he recovered from the pneumonia, but still could not swallow, and as you know, was not fed.
My question is, could the fecal impaction, or the squamous cell skin cancer have caused the esophageal cancer and, also, in your opinion, about how many months would it take to develop to this stage?
Sorry for the long message, but I wanted to say all the facts. Thank you Dr.Kaltari, for helping me to try to understand how this happened to my father, who had been healthy his whole life.