Stomach cancer News

SUNDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- An international team of researchers has identified hundreds of new genes that are mutated in stomach cancer, in a finding they say could lead to treatments tailored to the genetic make-up of individual stomach ...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Stomach cancer tumors have genetic differences, which determine how they respond to treatment, researchers have found. In identifying two distinct versions of the disease, scientists found that a certain regim...

MONDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Heavy beer drinkers who carry a gene mutation involved in the metabolism of alcohol may face a higher risk than others of developing stomach cancer, new European research suggests. Having a certain genetic varia...

THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Use of the drug trastuzumab in addition to chemotherapy can extend stomach cancer patients' survival by nearly three months, a new study has found. However, an editorial accompanying the study questions whethe...

FRIDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) -- An inherited genetic trait may be linked to more aggressive cases of stomach cancer, researchers say. The new findings don't prove that the gene variation actually causes stomach cancer, also known as gastric ca...

FRIDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new way to classify stomach cancers could lead to more effective treatments and improved long-term survival for people with the disease, researchers say. For a study published online Oct. 1 in PLoS Genetics, th...

TUESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- DNA testing of a person's stool can accurately screen for more types of cancer than previously thought, a new study has found. While DNA stool testing has been successfully used for early detection of colorectal...