Stomach Cancer

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Stomach Cancer
Stomach Cancer

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Cooking Up Cancer?

Grilling meats is an American tradition, but it’s not the healthiest thing to do. A growing body of research suggests that cooking meats over a flame is linked to cancer. Combusting wood, gas, or charcoal emits chemicals known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Exposure to these so-called PAHs is known to cause skin, liver, stomach, and several other types of cancer in lab animals. Epidemiological studies link occupational exposure to PAHs to cancer in humans. When PAHs from a flame mingle with nitrogen, say from a slab of meat, they can form nitrated PAHs, or NPAHs. NPAHs are even more carcinogenic than PAHs in laboratory experiments. The reasonable conclusion is that grilling meat may…

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 Cooking Up Cancer?

The evidence linking cancer to cooking meat over a combustion source has been accumulating for decades. Epidemiologists first noticed a connection between the consumption of smoked foods and stomach cancer in the 1960s.

Fight

Take The First Steps To Find Out If You Are Eligible For The FIGHT Clinical Study For Stomach And Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer.

Debbie's Dream Foundation

Debbie's Dream Foundation: Curing Stomach Cancer (DDF) is dedicated to raising awareness about stomach cancer, advancing funding for research, and providing education and support internationally to patients, families, and caregivers. DDF seeks as its ultimate goal to make the cure for stomach cancer a reality.

Gastric Cancer Foundation

The Gastric Cancer Foundation is focused exclusively on helping people fight gastric cancer. Through education, research, support and advocacy, GCF is dedicated to improving the lives of people who are affected by the disease and working with leading researchers to find a cure.

Gastric Cancer Registry

In 2011, Gastric Cancer Foundation launched the first Gastric Cancer Registry, a secure HIPAA-compliant database at Stanford University. Registry researchers gather comprehensive data about people with stomach cancer, including lifestyle, health and family histories, environmental factors as well as physical samples of the tumors themselves.

GASTROCAN

GASTROCAN (GRAMPIAN GASTRO-OESOPHAGEAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND) supports research to improve treatment for oesophageal and gastric cancer in NHS Grampian and The University of Aberdeen Medical School.

No Stomach for Cancer

We know that if you are here, it is likely that you or someone close to you is impacted by gastric cancer. If so, you are in the right place. We know personally what that means. We were once looking for a place where we would discover critical information about the choices we were facing and the implications of those choices. We needed to know we were not alone in this fight. No Stomach For Cancer and this website were established to create that source and community. We help people around the world connect, with participation on this site from individuals and families in more than 100 countries.

Cancer Stat Facts: Stomach Cancer

Approximately 0.9 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with stomach cancer at some point during their lifetime, based on 2014-2016 data.

Guts UK

This charity was set up to change something – to increase the levels of research into diseases of the gut, liver and pancreas so no one suffers in silence or alone.

Nature

Gastric cancer, or stomach cancer, is a type of cancer that begins in the mucus-producing cells on the inside lining of the stomach. The most common type of stomach cancer is adenocarcinoma.

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