What were your symptoms of stomach cancer?

Stomach cancer begins when cancer cells form in the inner lining of your stomach. These cells can grow into a tumor. Also called gastric cancer, the disease usually grows slowly over many years. read more

Stomach cancer has a reputation for being one of the most painful forms of cancer. But for many sufferers, pain is not among the disease's early warning signs. In fact, the most common feature in the early stages may be that it causes no symptoms at all, says Umut Sarpel, MD, an associate professor and surgical oncologist at New York's Mount Sinai Health System. read more

The symptoms were managed with diet change but since they were new for her we had an endoscopy done anyhow (a few doctors just wanted us to use a prilosec and/or diet change to manage the symptoms) and we found the tumor. read more