Clinical Trial for Advanced Gastric Cancer Now Enrolling Patients (07/16/2010)
Gastric cancer forms in the tissues and lining of the stomach. Current treatment options include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.

High Circulating Vitamin D Levels Don’t Reduce Risk of Less Common Cancers (07/12/2010)
High levels of vitamin D in the bloodstream do not appear to reduce the risk of seven less common cancers: endometrial, esophageal, stomach, ovarian, pancreatic, kidney, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Depression May Persist With Metastatic Cancer (05/27/2010)
A substantial number of patients with metastatic cancer may suffer from depression which tends to persist and grow more severe toward the end of life, according to the results of a study published early online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Genetic Variant Associated with Poor Outcome for Gastric Cancer (05/24/2010)
Patients with gastric cancer who have a certain type of inherited variation in the CD44 gene experience a significantly shorter time to disease recurrence (2.1 years) compared with patients without the genetic variation (seven years), according to the results of a study presented at the 2010 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Adjuvant Chemotherapy Clinical Trial Data from Last 30 Years Evaluated to Determine Benefit in Gastric Cancer (05/14/2010)
A moderate but statistically significant survival benefit was reported with the addition of chemotherapy to surgery in patients with resectable gastric cancer (gastric cancer that can be surgically removed). These findings were recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Cancers of the Lower Stomach have Increased in Young Whites (05/07/2010)
Although overall rates of noncardia gastric cancer (cancer of the lower stomach) have decreased in the United States, rates have increased in whites between the ages of 25 and 39 years. These findings were recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.