what is the survival rate of stomach cancer.?

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if the tumors have been found before reaching the other organs? or just in general? please help if you know the answer! thank you.

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Prognosis is a forecast of the probable course and/or outcome of a disease or condition. Prognosis is most often expressed as the percentage of patients who are expected to survive over five or ten years. Cancer prognosis is a notoriously inexact process. This is because the predictions are based on the experience of large groups of patients suffering from cancers at various stages. Using this information to predict the future of an individual patient is always imperfect and often flawed, but it is the only method available. Prognoses provided in this monograph and elsewhere should always be interpreted with this limitation in mind. They may or may not reflect your unique situation.

Most patients (about 66%) are at Stage III or Stage IV at the time of diagnosis. The remaining 34% are evenly divided between Stages I and II. Because stomach cancer is usually at a relatively advanced stage at the time of diagnosis, only about 22% of patients with stomach cancer survive for five years after diagnosis.

Survival rates for patients who are diagnosed in the earlier stages of stomach cancer depend in part on the location of the stomach cancer. The five-year survival rate for patients who have cancer in the part of their stomach closest to the esophagus is 10% to 15%. The five-year survival rate for patients who have cancer in the part of their stomach closest to the intestine is about 50%

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well, my aunt had a rare form of stomach cancer. when she was diagnosised she was about 3oo something pounds, the doc gave her 8 months max. she survived for 11 years after that , when she died she was under a hundered pounds.
personally i think it depends on hoow much you wiegh and the changes you make , to help slow down the sickness. and treatments.

My husband has a friend that got diagnosed with cancer 5 years ago. Part of his stomach was removed 5 years ago. He went thru chemo and he got better. Two years later it returned and had all his stomach removed. This year it made 5 years since he was diagnosed with stomach cancer and he did not follow the diet properly and his intestine burst which made the cancer spread all to the other organs had surgery in his colon. Now the doctor only gave him 4 months to live. June 9, 2006 was the date that all this happen and he is already doing all the arrangements for his ssn because he has five small kids and his wife doesn't work. I suggest that you help him let him know the best thing to do is to have all his stomach removed, from the beginning not just part of it, that way he will have a longer survival rate and to keep a strict diet. Definately no fats or fried foods, avoid spices, no red meats and no soft drinks!! Hope he gets better.

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