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Ex wife has stomach cancer is this serious ?

Answer 1

Sorry to hear that, I hope this helps.

Stomach cancer is the result of cell changes in the lining of the stomach. In Western Europe, stomach cancer is only about one third as common as it was 50 years ago.

The location of the tumours within the stomach has also changed. It used to be that most of the tumours were located near where the stomach joins the small bowel, now the commonest site is close to the junction with the oesophagus (gullet).

Stomach cancer is very common in Japan and the Japanese have developed an intensive and effective approach to screening for stomach cancer.

What causes stomach cancer?

The causes of stomach cancer continue to be debated. A combination of heredity (the genes inherited from your parents) and environment (diet, smoking, etc) are all thought to play a part.

Milk, fresh vegetables, vitamin C and frozen food all appear to reduce the risk of stomach cancer. Any kind of food that has been smoked, pickled or salted appears to increase the risk.

Other risk factors that have been suggested include being blood group A, and having the bacteria Helicobacter pylori in the stomach.

Stomach cancer is more common in men than women, and has its peak age range between 40 and 60 years old.

What are the symptoms of stomach cancer?

Stomach cancer can grow slowly and imperceptibly. Sometimes symptoms will only develop once the disease has spread beyond the stomach, for example to involve the liver. In this case, the symptoms would be those of cancer involving the liver.

There may be internal bleeding appearing as blood in the vomit, or black, tar-like, faeces, or the bleeding may be so slight as to pass undetected, and the patient goes to the doctor with iron-deficiency anaemia. Or there may be vomiting due to the obstruction of the food passage by the tumour, which is the first sign that something is wrong.

Excessive belching can be an early, and embarrassing, symptom. This can progress to a sensation of vague discomfort followed by pain if the tumour grows through the stomach wall.

As with cancer of the oesophagus, it may take a long time, often many months, from the time that symptoms first appear to the patient seeking medical advice. This delay may allow time for the tumour to spread and to progress from being potentially curable to being inoperable.

Good advice

If you have the slightest suspicion of any of the symptoms mentioned, you should contact your doctor at once for an assessment.

How is stomach cancer diagnosed?

Investigations for cancer of the stomach include:


X-ray examination, in this case a barium meal. This involves swallowing a white, chalky liquid and having a series of X-ray pictures taken of the stomach area.


the most important test is a gastroscopy. During a gastroscopy, the doctor examines the inside of the stomach using a camera attached to a flexible tube and is able to take a sample from the tumour for biopsy and microscopy.


How is stomach cancer treated?

The most effective treatment is surgery and the sooner the disease is discovered, the better the chances of a complete recovery. The cure rate after surgery is about 30 per cent.

In Japan, where stomach cancers are detected much earlier in the course of the disease, survival rates are higher. This shows the importance of early diagnosis.

Unfortunately, in the UK, many patients do not realise the significance of their symptoms until the later stages of the disease and this significantly reduces the chances of cure.

Chemotherapy has recently been shown to be highly effective against some forms of stomach cancer and may help convert an inoperable tumour into an operable one. The regime used is toxic and complicated and, unfortunately, only a minority of patients are fit enough to be treated in this way.

best wishes.

Answer 2

Yes, it is, as with all cancers. Google it to get some background info on it. Many members of my family have been diagnosed with various strands of cancer, but I found that getting a bit of knowledge on it is always useful.

I hope everything goes ok with your ex. If you're on good terms (or even if not), just try to be there for her. There's nothing you can do or say which will make things better, but she'll appreciate your support. And knowing a bit about what she's having to deal with will help you both.

Answer 3

The prognosis would depend on the stage the disease is at. Unfortunately stomach cancer is silent in the early stages, and unless it is discovered accidentally, which does sometimes happen, it is more often quite advanced before the diagnosis is made. If this is the case, the prognosis is very poor I am afraid.

Answer 4

YES - CANCER is serious. It is the Killer disease. Let us see now what is Cancer -

Cancer develops when cells in a part of the body begin to grow out of control. Although there are many kinds of cancer, they all start because of out-of-control growth of abnormal cells. Normal body cells grow, divide, and die in an orderly fashion. During the early years of a person's life, normal cells divide more rapidly until the person becomes an adult. After that, cells in most parts of the body divide only to replace worn-out or dying cells and to repair injuries.

Because cancer cells continue to grow and divide, they are different from normal cells. Instead of dying, they outlive normal cells and continue to form new abnormal cells.

Cancer cells develop because of damage to Deoxyribo-nucleic acid (DNA). This substance is in every cell and directs all activities. Most of the time when DNA becomes damaged the body is able to repair it. In cancer cells, the damaged DNA is not repaired. People can inherit damaged DNA, which accounts for inherited cancers. More often, though, a person's DNA becomes damaged by exposure to something in the environment, like smoking.

Cancer usually forms as a tumor. Some cancers, like leukemia, do not form tumors. Instead, these cancer cells involve the blood and blood-forming organs and circulate through other tissues where they grow.

Often, cancer cells travel to other parts of the body where they begin to grow and replace normal tissue. This process is called metastasis. Regardless of where a cancer may spread, however, it is always named for the place it began. For instance, breast cancer that spreads to the liver is still called breast cancer, not liver cancer.

Not all tumors are cancerous. Benign (non-cancerous) tumors do not spread (metastasize) to other parts of the body and, with very rare exceptions, are not life threatening.

Different types of cancer can behave very differently. For example, lung cancer and breast cancer are very different diseases. They grow at different rates and respond to different treatments. That is why people with cancer need treatment that is aimed at their particular kind of cancer.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world.. Today, millions of people are living with cancer or have had cancer. The risk of developing most types of cancer can be reduced by changes in a person's lifestyle, for example, by quitting smoking and eating a better diet. The sooner a cancer is found and treatment begins, the better are the chances for living for many years.

In Stomach there are many parts and unless you give full details it is difficult to tell you anything further. But one thing - She may be your Ex-wife, but she is a human being and has lived with you for some time. So she is required to be taken care of. Please do so. -

Answer 5

im so sorry ,i realy am,. and yes all cancers are seriouse, but dont dispair, we have come a long way in cures ,lets hope it was found in the early stages , will think of you both xx

Answer 6

yes stomach cancer can be very aggressive, all cancer is serious!!!!!

Answer 7

Yes very serious,if it's in the early stages though it might be treatable.

Answer 8

Yes. Cancer buried an associate of mine last week.

Answer 9

all cancer is serious....


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Answer 10

It can be serious. It would depend on how far advanced it is.