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	Stomach (Gastric) Cancer
		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).
		Cancers of the upper portion of the stomach are generally treated with a total gastrectomy, whereas patients with cancers of the lower portion of the stomach undergo partial gastrectomy.
	www.cancersupportivecare.com /stomach.html (1558 words)

	Stomach cancer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The (Type genus of the family Cancridae) cancer may grow along the stomach wall into the (The passage between the pharynx and the stomach) esophagus or (The longest part of the alimentary canal; where digestion is completed) small intestine.
		It invades the gastric wall, infiltrating the muscularis mucosae, the submucosa and thence the muscularis propria.
		Many patients with stomach cancer are treated in (A rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects; in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use) clinical trials.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stomach_cancer.htm (3286 words)

	Gastric Cancer
		Gastric cancers are most frequent in the Far East, specifically Japan, while in the US, the incidence of stomach cancers has actually decreased over the past decade, accounting for approximately 21,000 new cases and 13,000 cancer-related deaths last year.
		Benign adenomas, which are the gastric counterpart of colorectal adenomas, are also associated with a risk of progression to cancers.
		In Japan, intensive screening modalities have led to the emergence of a new variant called early gastric cancers, in which the primary tumor is restricted to the mucosa or submucosa, irrespective of metastasis, at the time of detection.
	www.oncodx.com /onco/gastric.htm (689 words)

	Gastric Cancer Information and Treatment Options
		Although gastric cancer has greatly decreased in the United States, on a worldwide scale its incidence is still high and is still a leading cause of cancer death.
		Unfortunately, gastric cancer often presents as a more advanced disease because of lack of early diagnosis, due mainly to the lack of specific symptoms that are associated with it.
		Gastric cancers have a propensity to undergo lymphatic spread because there are many small lymphatic vessels contained within the stomach wall.
	www.gastriccancerfacts.org (3202 words)

	Gastric Cancer Treatment - National Cancer Institute
		Gastric cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the lining of the stomach.
		Gastric cancer begins in the cells lining the mucosal layer and spreads through the outer layers as it grows.
		Gastric cancer is often in an advanced stage when it is diagnosed.
	www.cancer.gov /cancerinfo/pdq/treatment/gastric/patient (938 words)

	Gastric Cancer - CancerConsultants.com
		Gastric adenocarcinoma is the most common cancer of the stomach and it arises from the cells (columnar epithelium) lining the surface of the stomach.
		Stage 0: Cancer in situ is cancer that is limited to the surface layer of cells lining the stomach, which is called the epithelium.
		Stage II: Cancer invades beneath the surface, with spread to 7-15 lymph nodes or invades into the muscle of the wall of the stomach, with 1-6 lymph nodes involved with cancer or cancer penetrates the outer wall of the stomach without invading local structures and without lymph node spread.
	patient.cancerconsultants.com /gastric_cancer_treatment.aspx (1380 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Gastric cancer
		The incidence of this form of gastric cancer is extremely high in Japan, Chile, and Iceland.
		Risk factors for gastric cancer are a family history of gastric cancer, Helicobacter pylori infection, blood type A, a history of pernicious anemia, a history of chronic atrophic gastritis, a condition of decreased gastric acid, and a prior history of adenomatous gastric polyp.
		In Japan, where the risk of gastric cancer is very high, mass screening programs have been successful in detecting disease in the early stages.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/000223.htm (680 words)

	Cancer Information, Research, and Treatment for all Types of Cancer \| OncoLink
		Although gastric cancer has greatly decreased in the United States, on a worldwide scale its incidence is still high and is still a leading cause of cancer death.
		Unfortunately, gastric cancer often presents as a more advanced disease because of lack of early diagnosis, due mainly to the lack of specific symptoms that are associated with it.
		Gastric cancers have a propensity to undergo lymphatic spread because there are many small lymphatic vessels contained within the stomach wall.
	cancer.med.upenn.edu /types/article.cfm?c=5&s=14&ss=105&id=9463 (3434 words)

	Extended lymph node dissection fails to increase long-term survival among gastric cancer patients
		Gastric cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer worldwide and is diagnosed in approximately 870,000 people annually.
		Surgery is the only possible curative treatment for gastric cancer, and results of gastrectomy — the surgical removal of all or part of the stomach — have improved significantly over the years with respect to survival, morbidity, and post-operative mortality.
		A total of 1078 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma were randomized to undergo D1 or D2 dissection, of which 711 patients were treated with curative intent (82 patients were ineligible and 285 received palliative treatment).
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-04/asoc-eln040904.php (629 words)

	UMCCC: Stomach (Gastric) Cancer
		Stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, is the growth of abnormal cells in the lining and wall of the stomach.
		Stage 2: Cancer cells exist in the tissue of the gastric wall, and may or may not exist in the lymph nodes.
		The cancer may be curable in 85% of people whose early cancers have not spread through the stomach lining tissues.
	www.cancer.med.umich.edu /cancertreat/gastro/stomach_gastric_cancer.shtml (668 words)

	Disease - Gastric Cancer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gastric cancer can be at the top of the stomach (esophageal junction also called the cardia), in the middle (corpus or body of the stomach) or at the bottom (pyloric area).
		It is well known that most gastric cancers occur on a background of changes in the stomach called variously "atrophic gastritis" or "intestinal metaplasia".
		The theory is that the MALT lymphoma is a malignancy caused by the B lymphocytes in the gastritis.
	www.helico.com /info/disease/disease-gastric_cancer.htm (2439 words)

	Gastric cancer
		Most cancers of the stomach are adenocarcinomas, a type of cancer that develops in the mucosal cells that form the innermost lining of the stomach.
		The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2007, about 21,260 new cases of gastric cancer will be diagnosed in the United States, and that about 11,210 people will die of the disease.
		New approaches to the treatment of gastric cancer include the use of antibodies to deliver targeted radiation or chemotherapeutic agents directly to cancer cells, and vaccine therapy to boost the ability of the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells.
	www.antigenics.com /diseases/gastriccancer.html (840 words)

	Gastric Cancer
		After gastric cancer has been diagnosed, tests are done to find out if cancer cells have spread within the stomach or to other parts of the body.
		Stage I gastric cancer is divided into stage IA and stage IB, depending on where the cancer has spread.
		Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing.
	www.meb.uni-bonn.de /cancer.gov/CDR0000271446.html (3418 words)

	Screening for gastric cancer
		The major type of gastric cancer is adenocarcinoma, or cancer of the glandular tissue in the stomach.
		Gastric cancer is the seventh leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States.
		Although the incidence of stomach cancer in the United States has decreased since the 1930s, gastric cancer is a major cause of death worldwide, especially in developing countries.
	imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de /cancernet/504880.html (1360 words)

	Screening for gastric cancer: 304880 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gastric cancer is the seventh most frequent cause of cancer mortality in the United States.
		The decline in the incidence of gastric cancer worldwide is largely due to a decrease in the number of intestinal type lesions.
		Risk factors for gastric cancer include the presence of precursor conditions such as chronic atrophic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia, pernicious anemia, and gastric adenomatous polyps.
	www.acor.org /cnet/304880.html (684 words)

	Green tea and risk of gastric cancer
		Green tea consumption is not associated with the risk of gastric cancer in Japanese men and women.
		A total of 419 cases of gastric cancer (296 in men and 123 in women) were reported.
		Most of the studies which have found a reduced risk of gastric cancer in association with green tea consumption are case-control studies which are subject to many forms of bias, e.g.
	www.jr2.ox.ac.uk /bandolier/booth/hliving/greentea.html (473 words)

	Gastric Cancer: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cancer of the distal half of the stomach has been decreasing in the United States since the 1930s.
		The prognosis of patients with gastric cancer is related to tumor extent and includes both nodal involvement and direct tumor extension beyond the gastric wall.
		Stage 0 is gastric cancer confined to mucosa.
	www.acor.org /cnet/62911.html (3679 words)

	Gastric cancer
		Cancer of the stomach, also called gastric cancer, is a disease in which cancer (malignant) cells are found in the tissues of the stomach.
		Cancer is in the second or third layers of the stomach wall and has not spread to lymph nodes near the cancer or is in the second layer of the stomach wall and has spread to lymph nodes very close to the tumor.
		Cancer is in all four layers of the stomach wall and has spread to lymph nodes either very close to the tumor or further away from the tumor.
	cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk /cancernet/200025.html (2148 words)

	ACS :: What Is Stomach Cancer?
		It is important not to confuse stomach cancer with cancers of the colon (large intestine), liver, pancreas, or small intestine because these cancers may have different symptoms, a different prognosis (outlook for chances of survival), and different treatments.
		Cancers beginning in different sections may produce different symptoms and tend to have different outcomes.
		Approximately 90% to 95% of cancerous (malignant) tumors of the stomach are adenocarcinomas.
	www.cancer.org /docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_is_stomach_cancer_40.asp (879 words)

	gastric cancer
		Cancer of the stomach, also called gastric cancer, is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells arise from the lining of the stomach.
		The most common type of stomach cancer is adenocarcinoma, which starts in the glandular tissue of the stomach, and accounts for 95% of all stomach cancers.
		Cancer of the stomach is difficult to cure unless it is found at an early stage (before it has spread).
	cms.clevelandclinic.org /digestivedisease/body.cfm?id=137 (863 words)

	Ψ 10 years HANDANALYSIS RESEARCH: handanalysis on the world-wide-web
		Gastric cancer is very common malignant disease, etiology of which is still unknown.
		Digito-palmar dermatoglyphs were already used to determine hereditary base of some malignant diseases (breast, lung and colorectal cancer) and it was the reason for investigations of the correlation of their quantity features at patients with gastric cancer (36 males and 32 females) and the control groups of phenotypically healthy persons (50 males and 50 females).
		Higher incidence of gastric cancer and the blood group A could be confirmed, as well.
	www.handresearch.com /hand/Evolutie/wwwscience2003cajun213Engels.htm (204 words)

	Gastric Cancer
		Surgical treatment of gastric cancer (infiltration at resection margins, local recurrence after distal subtotal gastrectomy, extended lymph node dissection, combined resection of adjacent structures, and effect of the choice between distal subtotal gastrectomy and total gastrectomy [TG] on the patient's outcome) and elective procedures for curability are discussed.
		As advanced gastric cancer is a systemic disease surgery only cannot cure the patient, systemic immunochemotherapy is necessary to kill the remaining or micrometastatic cancer cells.
		The purpose of this study was to evaluate the result of surgery on 7252 gastric cancer patients and the effect of immunochemosurgery (early postop immunochemotherapy).
	www.foxhall.com /stomach.htm (1581 words)

	the GASTROLAB Image Gallery: Gastric Cancer
		These are gastric carcinomas of the intestinal type, the tumor to the right is quite advanced.
		Gastric cancer is often found in a very advanced stage, when the disease is involving almoust all of the stomach wall, and metastatic tumours are found in the liver.
		Another example of a typical gastric cancer of the intestinal type to the left in these pictures.
	www.gastrolab.net /ku20.htm (197 words)

	Gastric Cancer information, including cancer treatment options, from Mayo Clinic
		People with gastric cancer are diagnosed and treated by a team that includes physicians in gastroenterology, medical and radiation oncology, radiology, surgery, pathology and genetics.
		Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (opens in new window) is a leader in translating extensive research knowledge into effective improvements for the care of people with cancer and their families.
		Patients with early cancers can be treated with surgery alone (cancer confined to wall of stomach with negative nodes), but cancers that have spread beyond the wall of the stomach or involve nodes usually require the addition of radiation or chemotherapy or both.
	www.mayoclinic.org /gastric-cancer (457 words)

	eMedicine - Gastric Cancer : Article by Vivek K Mehta, MD
		Infection with this organism is implicated as a precursor of gastric cancer.
		The intestinal, expansive, epidemic-type gastric cancer is associated with chronic atrophic gastritis, retained glandular structure, little invasiveness, and a sharp margin.
		Two important factors influencing survival in resectable gastric cancer are depth of cancer invasion through the gastric wall and presence or absence of regional lymph node involvement.
	www.emedicine.com /med/topic845.htm (3725 words)

	Gastric Cancer
		Gastric Cancer, or in other words stomach cancer, is caused by a type of bacterium called Helicobacter pylori.
		There are a few kinds of treatments for Gastric Cancer – the most common was is by radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and/or surgery.
		So this type of Gastric Cancer treatment should probably be your last resort, as having part of your stomach removed has undesirable effects upon the body.
	www.cancermba.com /content/cancer_types/gastric-cancer.html (256 words)

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