Sometimes the best treatment for stomach cancer is having your stomach removed. That may sound scary, ... Even if they can’t remove all of the cancer, a partial gastrectomy may provide some relief.

Life expectancy of patients with early gastric cancer who underwent curative gastrectomy: Comparison with the general population using the Korean Statistical Information Service database. https ...

McNeer et al. 64 concluded that cancer had been left behind in adjacent stomach wall in 50 per cent of 96 collected cases coming to autopsy at some time after subtotal gastrectomy had been done ...

A gastrectomy is a surgical procedure carried out to remove all or part of the stomach. It may be used to treat stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, severe or morbid obesity, peptic ulcers or benign ...

Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection was noninferior to open distal gastrectomy in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer, according to 5-year follow-up ...

Chen Y, Kingham K, Ford JM, et al. A prospective study of total gastrectomy for CDH1-positive hereditary diffuse gastric cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2011;18(9):2594-2598 Strong VE, Gholami S, Shah MA, et ...

Stomach cancer is curable in some cases, but it can depend on factors such as the cancer's size and stage, ... Subtotal gastrectomy removes a section of the stomach, ...

Using data from the Laparoscopic vs. Open Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer trial, van der Veen and colleagues conducted an economic evaluation of the cost and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs ...

What Causes Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer? You get HDGC because of a change -- called a mutation -- in a gene that's passed on from one of your parents. The gene is called CDH1.

Stomach cancer rates in the United States have been steadily decreasing for decades, but recent trends reveal an increase in early-onset stomach cancer in people younger than 50, particularly women.

He learned he had stomach cancer, although he had no symptoms. ... He will now undergo a gastrectomy — the removal of his stomach; After losing his daughter in utero, ...