The number of patients diagnosed with gastric cancer is steadily increasing due to an aging society and changes in eating ...

The layer of cells that line the stomach—the gastric epithelium—form gastric glands, or pits, and these contain the cells that can give rise to stomach cancer. The cells in our body acquire ...

University of Texas at Dallas bioengineers, in collaboration with UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers, are developing an enhanced light-activated immunotherapy approach that could one day treat ...

pylori or for gastric cancer. Treatment of H. pylori infection can reduce the risk of stomach cancer developing ... that has extended to nearby lymph nodes. M describes any metastasis (i.e ...

Stomach cancers are increasingly being diagnosed at less advanced, more treatable stages - a shift that marks major progress in detecting one of the deadliest forms of cancer, according to a study to ...

Chief cells lie at the base of the stomach’s gastric glands, and in healthy individuals they are responsible for secreting enzymes required for digestion. Scientists have proposed that, in the face of ...

Still, the identity of gastric-cancer forming cells has ... theory in gastroenterology is that stem cells in the stomach arise in the isthmus, the region located around the middle of the corpus glands ...

The most common place for stomach cancer to spread is to the liver. It can also spread to the lymph nodes, the tissue that lines the abdominal cavity (peritoneum), and the lungs. Lymph nodes are part ...