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What Is Stomach Cancer?
Stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, is a cancer that starts in the stomach. After food is chewed and swallowed, it enters the esophagus, a tube that carries food through the neck and chest to the stomach. The esophagus joins the stomach ... [... more]
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How Is Stomach Cancer Diagnosed?
Unfortunately, early-stage stomach cancer rarely causes symptoms. This is one of the reasons why stomach cancer is so hard to detect early. The signs and symptoms of stomach cancer can include: Most of these symptoms are more likely to occur with ... [... more]
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Treatment Choices by Type and Stage of Stomach Cancer
Treatment of stomach cancer depends to a large degree on where the cancer started in the stomach and how far it has spread. Because stage 0 cancers are limited to the inner lining layer of the stomach and have not invaded deeper layers, they can ... [... more]
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What Are the Risk Factors for Stomach Cancer?
Infection with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) bacteria seems to be a major cause of stomach cancer, especially cancers in the lower (distal) part of the stomach. Long-term infection of the stomach with this germ may lead to inflammation (chronic ... [... more]
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What Should You Ask Your Doctor About Stomach Cancer?
What is the goal of my treatment? To cure or to ease symptoms? If I am to have surgery, what is your experience in this type of surgery for stomach cancer? If I am to have surgery, what is the experience of the hospital in this type of surgery ... [... more]
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Do We Know What Causes Stomach Cancer?
There are many known risk factors for stomach cancer, but it is not known exactly how these factors cause cells of the stomach lining to become cancerous. This is the subject of ongoing research. Several changes that are thought to be ... [... more]
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What's New in Stomach Cancer Research and Treatment?
Research is always being done in the area of stomach cancer. In addition to looking for the causes and ways to prevent stomach cancer, scientists continue to research improved treatments. Over many years research has clearly shown that ... [... more]
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What Are the Key Statistics About Stomach Cancer?
About 21,500 Americans (13,190 men and 8,310 women) will be diagnosed with stomach cancer during 2008. There will be about 10,880 (6,450 men and 4,430 women) deaths from this type of cancer in 2008. This is a disease that mostly affects older ... [... more]
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ACS :: ¿Qué es?
El cáncer del estómago, conocido también como cáncer gástrico, es un cáncer que se origina en el estómago. Después de que los alimentos son masticados y tragados, entran al esófago, un & [... more]
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Categorías T del cáncer del estómago
La detección es la búsqueda de una enfermedad, como el cáncer, en personas sin síntomas. En los países como Japón, en los que el cáncer del estómago es mucho más común que en los [... more]
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Treating Stomach Cancer
Depending on the type and stage of stomach cancer, surgery may be used to remove the cancer and the part or all of the stomach. The surgeon will try to leave behind as much normal stomach as possible. At this time, surgery offers the only ... [... more]
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