What is cancer of the stomach?
The stomach cancer is an abnormal proliferation of cells in the stomach. It most often affects men, is rare before 50 years, and risk increases with age.
The chances of survival are greater if the cancer is diagnosed early, if spread to lymph is absent or limited, or if it is a superficial damage.

Stomach Cancer

What are its causes?
Additional factors are known, but not always found: a personal history of stomach disease chronic inflammation of the stomach with atrophy, including infection with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, gastric ulcer, gastric polyps, surgery, high intake of salt, smoked foods.


The reduction of cervical cancer (-35% in 20 years) is often attributed in part to the appearance of the refrigerator that has abolished smoking or salting food for conservation. A familial predisposition is possible.
Consumption of fresh fruit instead appears protective, but the supplementation of antioxidants can sometimes be harmful.

What are its signs?
The signs most commonly found are the stomach pains, weight loss and deterioration of general condition, fatigue and loss of appetite.


How is it diagnosed?
The diagnosis is confirmed by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and it allows direct visual stomach through a tube with a flexible optical device inserted through the mouth and collect small fragments of the stomach for analysis (biopsy).

What are their salaries?
The cure depends on the surgery, with removal of the tumor and associated lymph nodes (lymphadenectomy). Depending on the location and extent of the tumor in the stomach and its type, it can be removed from a more or less of the stomach (partial gastrectomy) or whole (total gastrectomy). Small superficial cancers of the stomach can be removed endoscopically (mucosectomy).
If the partial gastrectomy is an anastomosis (suture to connect the 2 ends) is performed between the remaining part of the stomach and a portion of the intestine (duodenum or small intestine). If the entire stomach was removed, the anastomosis is performed between the esophagus and small intestine.
Chemotherapy can sometimes be used before or after surgery, when lymph node involvement to reduce the risk of relapse. It can also be used only in cases of metastases.

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