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Helicobacter Pylori (H pylori) infection is a leading cause of stomach cancer.

Ask your doctor for an H. pylori test if you are experiencing prolonged and persistent symptoms like
stomach burning, loss of appetite, and nausea.

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Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge UK

Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge UK is a specialist centre for Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer (HDGC). We have a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) involved in the ongoing clinical and psychological care of individuals who have a family history of HDGC or who are CDH1 mutation positive. We have regular surgical and multidisciplinary team HDGC clinics where we […]

Social Security Disability

Social Security Disability Insurance is a payroll tax-funded federal insurance program of the United States government. It is managed by the Social Security Administration and designed to provide monthly benefits to people who have a medically-determinable disability that restricts their ability to be employed.

Faces of Stomach Cancer

Read the personal stories of others facing issues and challenges with stomach cancer that may be similar to your own.

Chad Sapieha

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Chad Sapieha’s blog, Gutless. Chad had his total gastrectomy on March 2, 2009. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.March 2009

How to live without a stomach

James Turner, 43, lives in Northumberland, England and is married to Claire. They have two children – a boy aged five and a girl aged eight. Both James’s mother (in 2000) and his brother (in 2011) died of stomach cancer. It was only after his brother’s diagnosis that James learnt about hereditary diffuse gastric cancer […]

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