Stomach cancer(Gastric cancer)

You will have heard about Eye cancer ,Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Penile Cancer, Ovarian Cancer that are most commen but Stomach Cancer will be new for you. Cancer is a uncontroll Mitosis(type cell division).When you check list of Cancer from A to Z then you will only found that Q,X,Y, and Z alphabits have no entry. All type of cancers are horriable and painful but here i will read about Stomach Cancer.Stomach cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide with 930,000 cases diagnosed in 2002.
Gastric cancer can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver. Stomach cancer causes about 800,000 deaths worldwide per year.
Signs and symptoms:-
When it begin Loss of appetite, especially for meat.
Late
- Abdominal pain or discomfort in the upper abdomen
- Nausea and vomiting
- Diarrhea or constipation
- Bloating of the stomach after meals
- Weight loss
- Weakness and fatigue
- Bleeding (vomiting blood or having blood in the stool) which will appear as black. This can lead to anemia.
- Dysphagia; this feature suggests a tumor in the cardia or extension of the gastric tumor in to the esophagus
Causes:-
1. A bacteria Helicobacter pylori .
2. Genetically Male is more affected than Female its incidence as up to three males are affected for every female.
3. Iodine deficiency or excess.

Diagnosis:-
- Gastroscopic exam is the diagnostic method of choice. This involves insertion of a fibre optic camera into the stomach to visualize it.
- Upper GI series (may be called barium roentgenogram)
- Computed tomography or CT scanning of the abdomen may reveal gastric cancer, but is more useful to determine invasion into adjacent tissues, or the presence of spread to local lymph nodes.
Treatment:-
Surgery
Chemotherapy
Radiation therapy
Multimodality therapy
I hope this information will provide an idea about stomach cancer.
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Thank you SO much for letting us know this! This is the real info that we need. -many hugs- I’m glad that you’re doing much better now though. I went to the doc today! Had my blood work redone again. So now, it’s really beginning. Once I have everything in, I’ll see the doctor, and straight into surgery from there.
Glad to see you so much this week though, it’s nice to see you popping up. Hehe. But anyhow, be careful! We lurvs ya