Stomach cancer
Stomach cancer: Introduction
Stomach cancer: Stomach or gastric cancer can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs.
More detailed information about the symptoms,
causes, and treatments of Stomach cancer is available below.
Symptoms of Stomach cancer
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symptoms of Stomach cancer
Treatments for Stomach cancer
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treatments for Stomach cancer
Wrongly Diagnosed with Stomach cancer?
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Stomach cancer: Related Patient Stories
News Archives for Stomach cancer
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Source: HealthDay News
Curable Types of Stomach cancer
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Rare Types of Stomach cancer:
Rare types of Stomach cancer include:
- Diffuse-type gastric cancers
- Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer
- GIST tumours
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Diagnostic Tests for Stomach cancer
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diagnostic tests for Stomach cancer
Stomach cancer: Complications
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Causes of Stomach cancer
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causes of Stomach cancer
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Home Diagnostic Testing
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- Cancer-Related Home Testing:
- Digestive-Related Home Testing:
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Disease Topics Related To Stomach cancer
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Medical Textbooks Online about Stomach cancer
Medical Books Excerpts
- Abdominal Pain
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- Abdominal pain
- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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- Abdominal Pain
- "The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics" (2006)
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Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Stomach cancer: Medical Mistakes
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Stomach cancer: Undiagnosed Conditions
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Misdiagnosis and Stomach cancer
Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms
of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be...read more »
Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea
is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called intestinal imbalance.
The digestive system contains a variety...read more »
Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely
to cause some level of diarrhea in patients.
The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria,
but can also kill the "good" bacteria in the gut.
This...read more »
Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down
with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning).
In fact, it's more likely to...read more »
Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the
more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed
(it can, of course,...read more »
Spitz nevi misdiagnosed as dangerous melanoma skin cancer: One possible misdiagnosis to
consider in lieu of melanoma is spitz nevi.
See melanoma and spitz nevi....read more »
Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive
conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption disorder with a variety of symptoms (see symptoms of
celiac...read more »
Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent
difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases.
Some of the...read more »
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Stomach cancer: Research Doctors & Specialists
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Hospitals & Clinics: Stomach cancer
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Stomach cancer: Rare Types
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Latest Treatments for Stomach cancer
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latest treatments for Stomach cancer
Evidence Based Medicine Research for Stomach cancer
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Stomach cancer: Animations
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Prognosis for Stomach cancer
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Reseach about Stomach cancer
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Clinical Trials for Stomach cancer
The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally
and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.
Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Stomach cancer include:
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Clinical Trials for Stomach cancer
Statistics for Stomach cancer
Stomach cancer: Broader Related Topics
Types of Stomach cancer
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Definitions of Stomach cancer:
Primary or metastatic malignant neoplasm of the stomach
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Stomach cancer is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Stomach cancer, or a subtype of Stomach cancer,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Stomach cancer as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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