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| | Stomach (Gastric) Cancer |
 | | Furthermore, gastric adenocarcinomas are further subclassified according to their gross appearance (polypoid, fungating, ulcerated, or infiltrative); their histologic features (intestinal or diffuse); and their location within the stomach (cardia, corpus, or antrum). |
 | | A rare subtype of stomach cancer is scirrhous carcinoma, or linitus plastica, a poorly differentiated mixture of mucin-producing carcinoma cells that infiltrates the muscle wall and turns the stomach tissue rigid and leatherlike, limiting its distensibility and preventing normal digestion. |
 | | Finally, gastric cancers are seen at increased frequency in certain familial cancer syndromes, such as hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer (HNPCC) and the E-cadherin familial stomach cancer syndrome (associated with the diffuse form of stomach cancer). |
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