Stomach Cancer Chat Rooms

Perhaps you are looking for a supportive shoulder to lean on when you need it most.

Stomach cancer chat rooms.

This cancer peer support society offers you not only a cancer chat room but cancer forums and a cancer social network where you can begin to meet greet share and support with others. Sep 15 2017 3 27 pm by disenchanted. Please ensure you have read the chat room rules enter chat room. Stomach cancer usually begins in the mucus producing cells that line the stomach.

Appendiceal cancer limited ability to eat drink. Also called gastric cancer the disease usually grows slowly over many years. In gastroesophageal junction cancer as well as in cancer of the stomach body radiation therapy can be used before surgery neoadjuvant radiation to shrink a tumor so that it s more easily removed. Stomach cancer survivor ron dunnahoo first knew something was wrong when he began having severe indigestion this was something new.

Weight loss without trying abdominal belly pain. For the past several decades rates of cancer in the main part of the stomach stomach body have been falling worldwide. Vague discomfort in the abdomen usually above the navel. This type of cancer is called adenocarcinoma.

Fiancé recently diagnosed stage iv stomach cancer. The signs and symptoms of stomach cancer can include. Stomach cancer tends to. In summer 2014 he went to the doctor who ran some imaging tests and diagnosed mild acid reflux.

Stomach cancer occurs when normally healthy cells within the upper digestive system become cancerous and grow out of control forming a tumor. The five year survival rate for stage ia stomach cancer is 71 meaning 71 of people diagnosed with stage ia stomach cancer survive five years or more. This process happens slowly. Radiation therapy can also be used after surgery adjuvant radiation to kill any cancer cells that might remain in the area around your esophagus.

This is one of the reasons stomach cancer is so hard to detect early. Sep 12 2017 4 37 pm by kgcarter. Early stage stomach cancer rarely causes symptoms. On the flip side 29 100 to 71 of people diagnosed with stage 1a stomach cancer live for less than five years.

Sep 24 2017 8 37 pm by amftx. During the same period cancer in the area where the top part of the stomach cardia meets the.