http://medicineworld.org/news/gastricnews.html MedicineWorld.Org brings daily stomach cancer news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld heart watch news service is the most comprehensive heart watch news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:27 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/stomch-cancer.jpg http://medicineworld.org/news/gastricnews.html 73 71 http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/stomach-acid-reducer-pneumonia.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/stomach-acid-reducer-pneumonia.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:27 GMT A popular stomach-acid reducer used to prevent stress ulcers in critically ill patients needing breathing machine support increases the risk of those patients contracting pneumonia threefold, as per scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Hospital-acquired pneumonia is the leading cause of infection-related deaths in critically ill patients. It increases hospital stays by an average of seven to nine days, cost of care, and the risk of other complications........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2009/waiting-times-too-long-for-bariatric-surgery.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2009/waiting-times-too-long-for-bariatric-surgery.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:27 GMT Obesity is now acknowledged as a chronic disease with many related complications, and its prevalence has reached alarming epidemic proportions. While bariatric surgery is effective at treating the disease, access to this procedure is still too limited in Canada. The latest article published by Dr. Nicolas Christou, of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), in the recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Surgery assesses the waiting times for this procedure........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2009/chemotherapy-after-surgery-in-gastric-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2009/chemotherapy-after-surgery-in-gastric-cancer.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:27 GMT Peritoneal carcinomatosis can be thought of as a series of events that together form a peritoneal metastatic cascade. The peritoneal stromal tissue may be a friendly host for tumour proliferation, providing a rich source of growth factors and chemokines known to be involved in tumour metastasis. Till now, our understanding of the molecular mediators that orchestrate this cascade is weakly understood. Astragalus memebranaceus,a traditional chinese herbal medicine used for the therapy of common cold , diarrhea, fatigue anorexia and cardiac diseases. In recent years, it has been proposed that Astragalus may possess anti-apoptosis potential in peritoneal mesothelial cell. In spite of this, the anti-apoptosis effects of Astragalus saponin extract in human peritoneal mesothelial cells during peritoneal carcinomatosishas has not been studied. In this study, the anti-apoptosis effects of Astragalus saponin extract were investigated in human peritoneal mesothelial cells during peritoneal gastric cancer metastasis........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/bacteria-increase-risk-of-stomach-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/bacteria-increase-risk-of-stomach-cancer.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:27 GMT The bacteria Helicobacter pylori substantially increase the risk of cancer in the lower stomach, but it may decrease the risk of cancer near the junction between the esophagus and the stomach, as per a research studyin the October 19 Journal of the National Cancer Institute. This finding may help explain the changing rates and distributions of these cancers in Western countries over the past century........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/6-2006/suggest-your-news-item-to-medicineworld.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/6-2006/suggest-your-news-item-to-medicineworld.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:27 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2005/merry-christmas-to-all-our-readers.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2005/merry-christmas-to-all-our-readers.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:27 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2005/broccoli-for-stomach-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2005/broccoli-for-stomach-cancer.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:27 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2005/stat3-protein-and-stomach-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2005/stat3-protein-and-stomach-cancer.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:27 GMT