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catlvr — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:15:56 GMT

Does anyone here have any experience with stomach cancer? Yes there is an oncologist and all that but they don't know everything .

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betteb — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:21:54 GMT

Is it Adenocarcinoma? Stomach cancer is fairly rare and declining in the US, but this is the most common type.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 09:01:49 GMT

My FIL died from stomach cancer over 30 yrs. ago.

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151949 — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:56:10 GMT

On 6/14/2014 catlvr said: Does anyone here have any experience with stomach cancer? Yes there is an oncologist and all that but they don't know everything .

Well, I'd say it is save to assume a doctor knows a heck of a lot more than what you'll read here - not to mention all the incorrect info you can get here on any subject. Ask the doctor your questions - he will know the correct answers.

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brii — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:57:56 GMT

My FIL passed away last summer from ""abdominal cancer"". They never found the source.

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Jersey Born — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 14:16:04 GMT

Catlvr, you may want to check out a book called The China Study, by T. Colin Campbell. I think some of the answers you are looking for are detailed in that book. Doctors don't know everything. That is a given. Doctors are people, and some of them graduated at the bottom of their class. The practice of medicine is an ongoing, evolving thing. Not even close to everything about cancer--from how it forms to how to treat it safely and effectively-- is presently known.

As the stomach is where food is digested, I believe this particular cancer is perhaps the most closely tied to food consumption. Restoring alkalinity would at the very least be helpful for a person with stomach cancer, and at best, possibly curative.

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Sooner — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:13:33 GMT

Doctors know about current medical thinking. People know about experiences and can lend support. It is always good to reach out to others.

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lovescats — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:57:02 GMT

On 6/14/2014 Sooner said:
Doctors know about current medical thinking. People know about experiences and can lend support. It is always good to reach out to others.

I always think that when people are posting topics like this that they are looking for someone that has experiences with the condition not the helpful harrys' answer of go ask your doctor. When I had radiation for breast cancer the nurse said this is going to be a lot easier than someone who has to have radiation for a soft tissue organ like stomach cancer.

After I had chemotherapy one thing I read was you should always ask for the last appointment of the day so you could just go home and go to sleep for the day. If it was me I would want to know what people were able to eat when they were going thru the treatment. I wish you well.

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Buck-i-Nana — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:09:26 GMT

On 6/14/2014 Sooner said:
Doctors know about current medical thinking. People know about experiences and can lend support. It is always good to reach out to others.

Exactly. When first confronted with a diagnosis of a serious illness you're blindsided; you don't even really know what questions to ask! Been there, done that. I get so frustrated with the nonsensical response to talk to your Dr. Yes, your medical team is important in your treatment, and I've never seen anyone here tell someone they don't need to see a Dr.. Even a good Dr. will tell you that having the support of others who have gone through the same thing is of enormous benefit as you go through treatment!

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scotnovel — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:19:40 GMT

A friend of mine's husband (he is 64) spent most of last year getting chemo and radiation for stage 4 stomach cancer (I don't know the exact type). At this time he is in remission. I don't know the type of chemo but he was in the hospital 5 or 6 times during the year each time for a three day continual cycle of chemo. After that he had a course of radiation (5 days a week for 5-6 weeks) along with some type of very expensive chemo pill (not covered by insurance) that he took once a day.

It was a fairly brutal year. His cancer was found partly due to a routine screening related to esophageal cancer that he had more than 5 years ago but also due to the fact that he could not keep any food down. He had multiple tuomrs in the stomach but he was not a candidate for surgery.

He was unable to eat anything for months except liquids but was lucky enough not to need a feeding tube. I was the designated cook for them since they had so much else going on. Mostly, I made a lot of different kinds of healthy soups, often using tofu as the protein source and for thickening, & pureed everthing (thank goodness for my Vitamix). In addition to the hospital stays for chemo he was in the hospital a few other times - once for 10 days due to pneumonia, once for blood clots in the legs, and another time for a major infection.

He has been in a weakened state since then although is just now starting to feel better. It has been about 5 months since all the treatment ended & he can eat normally. The doctors said he has a good chance of full recovery at this point.

My personal observation is that if someone makes the decision to go through with this type of rigorous treatment they need to have a VERY strong support system with mutiple people to help. If it had been me, seeing everything they went through, I would have made the decision not to do the treatment but they made the choice that made sense for them & it seems to have been the right choice.

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151949 — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:59:28 GMT

There are actual support groups your oncologist can recommend to you where there is a professional moderator who will weed out the incorrect information and be certain you are hearing the real truth. There is a ton of incorrect info given on this board all the time - and people will wear and fight and say they are the one who knows the true facts - when what they are saying is not at all correct. That is why this BB is not a good place to come to for information. I am a nurse and I am a cancer survivor twice - a professional support group is very helpful.

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lovescats — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 02:54:50 GMT

A lot of places don't have support groups anymore.