Documentary

[Mum007]

BBC2 at 9pm - surgeons at the edge of life. This has been a great documentary series. Tonight’s episode is about a challenging procedure on a patient with a severely scarred oesophagus which they remove and build a new one by stretching her stomach. Just thought it might be interesting to some people on this site.

[Mayan]

Thank you for that information,I will definitely watch that one I'm 10 years post op and probably find it very interesting

[slobjohnb]

Very interesting documentary but the poor lady may be expecting a cure-all op. As we all know this is now back to square 1. Less problems but different and will take some getting used to. Good luck to her.

[CharlieWood]

My wife is in the UK and watched it and said it really brought home to her what I went through down here in South Africa last November. Ironically I was back in hospital yesterday having my second stretch after having a complete blockage from last Saturday night that lasted until Monday morning. A bit scary.

[Scrumtasticjojo]

It was so interesting to see it from another perspective and not as the patient - I had the identical surgery to this lady 2 years ago to eradicate my cancer. Apart from a second op to repair my diaphragm this year and a couple of stretches - life is really good and I'm still here! These surgeons are definitely superheroes.

[Hap2260]

Might give it a watch my husband died in Feb this year due to espegeous cancer which had spread any operation that gives you chance is worth it xx

[Cortex1]

I missed it! Will they send it again?

[Mum007]

You could probably watch it on catchup or iplayer

[mauledtodeath]

It's on iplayer for another 25 days from today.