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Introduction
Each year, about 24,000 people in the United States learn that they have
cancer
of the stomach. This National Cancer Institute (NCI) booklet (NIH Publication No. 94-1554) will give you important information about the symptoms, diagnosis, and
treatment of stomach cancer. This booklet also has information to help you deal with this disease if it affects you
or someone you know.
Other NCI booklets are listed in the Other Booklets section. Our materials cannot answer every question
you may have about stomach cancer. They cannot take the place of talks with doctors, nurses, and other members
of the health care team. We hope our information will help with those talks.
Researchers continue to look for better ways to diagnose and treat cancer of the stomach, and our knowledge
is growing. For up-to-date information or to order this publication, call the NCI-supported
Cancer Information Service
(CIS) toll free at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237).
Words that may be new to readers appear in
italics. Definitions of these words and other terms related to stomach
cancer can be found in the Dictionary. For some words, a "sounds-like" spelling is also given.
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