Putting the Spotlight on Gastric Cancer

If you know someone who has cancer of the stomach, then you have an idea of just how lethal this disease is. The word cancer alone is enough to trigger a special reaction among those who hear it, but when the word cancer is associated to a person we are close or are familiar with, everything changes.

Also known as gastric cancer, this type of cancer develops in the tissues that line the stomach. What makes this disease so dangerous is that, like many types of cancers, it is a silent killer. Many stomach cancer patients are diagnosed in …read more