A brief Note About Stomach Cancer
Cancer. It is the word hard to hear, speak or think. Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. Cancer can start in one part of the body and continue to grow to other places if not treated in time. Today, I want to talk about one particular type of cancer: Gastric cancer or Stomach cancer. Gastric cancer Gastric cancer can dormant for years, but it starts in the mucus-producing cells in the lining of the stomach. It is cancer known as adenocarcinoma that can grow from the top of the stomach (cardio) and ends at the swallowing tube (esophagus). In 2018, the American Cancer Society says about 26, 240 woman and men have cases of stomach cancer in the United States. The number of cases has decreased by about 1.5% each year in the last ten years, but still is one the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. History In the late 1930s, gastric cancer became the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. There was a decr