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Stomach cancer

Ji Min Kim

What word do you think of when you hear the word stomach cancer? If you think

of cancer, which occurs in the stomach, then you are correct. Stomach cancer is generally

known as gastric cancer. This essay is about stomach cancer and it will describe what

stomach cancer is, its cause, types of treatments, and the one-world issues arisen from it.

What is a stomach cancer? Stomach cancer is a cancer that appears on stomach

and it's the 10th most common cancer in the world. The stomach has five layers. As cancer

grows deeper into the layers, the prognoses for the patients get worse. Starting from the

innermost layer is called mucosa.

Most of the stomach cancers 90-

95 percent are classified as adenocarcinomas; a type of cancer that develops in cells lined

There are several pieces of layers in our stomach.

bjbiss, 01/08/11,

This is very similar to the statement made in the introduction paragraph

bjbiss, 01/08/11,

This is an abrupt comment. You don’t go any further with it

bjbiss, 01/08/11,

This statement doesn’t make sense. Is it among the ten most common?

lining the walls of different organs in the body. Stomach cancers rarely affect people

under age 40, but it is often found in people over the age of 55. Stomach cancer appears

twice as common in males than in females. Also, most of the gastric cancer patients are in

Japan. 22.4% of the total patients in the world are from Japan, followed by Portugal,

Hungary, Slovakia and Poland.

So what causes stomach cancer? Lifestyle plays an important role; if you don’t

live properly, then you might get cancer. Usually, cancer (stomach cancer) happens

because of 4 reasons. First, smoking. Tobacco contains carcinogens that does harm to

your body. Second, diet. You shouldn't eat food that is too salty or smoked. Salty and

smoked food contains nitrates, -a carcinogen-. Third, being morbidly obese. If you are

overweighed,t there is a high chance of getting stomach cancer. Finally, it’s family

history. There is a good chance of getting stomach cancer if one’s close relatives has or

had stomach cancer. Most of the cancers are passed down to son or daughter. Plus, the

cancer cells can spread each other.

If one gets stomach cancer, they may be nervous and thinking about survival

possibility, but there are treatments for stomach cancer. There are three ways of treating

the stomach cancer. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy is the following. All of

them work, but I’ll discuss about chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Chemotherapy is

basically injecting anticancer drugs into a vein. It is helpful for destroying cancer cells.

Nevertheless, it has side effects such as fatigue, nausea, vomiting and hair loss.

Radiotherapy is another type of treatment. It uses as high dose radiation and kills cancer

cells. The disadvantage of radiation therapy is that it can develop a second cancer and has

severe side effects.

bjbiss, 01/09/11,

You haven’t explained the pros or cons of either of these treatments. You have also not explained how the treatment works to help fight cancer growth.

bjbiss, 01/09/11,

This is not a complete sentence.

bjbiss, 01/09/11,

I don’t understand what you mean? Do they spread in ways other than through mitosis?

bjbiss, 01/08/11,

Not really a stand alone sentence

bjbiss, 01/08/11,

This paragraph covers a lot of information. You might have tried to break it up a bit into different paragraphs. One about what the cancer is, one for causes and groups affected the most.

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Odd word choice…. You might have gone with frequently

There are 4 types of symptoms when you get stomach cancer. Feeling nausea,

barfing, losing appetite, feeling tired easily and losing weight are the symptoms of

stomach cancer. If one corresponds to two or more symptoms above, then there is a

possibility of cancer cell growing in one’s body and has to get a proper diagnosis. These

are the risk factors of stomach cancer. Blood type A, ages over 50, history of stomach

removal are the risk factors and it is likely to occur on people with these conditions.

Getting the treatment for stomach cancer can destroy one financially. Cancer

treatments can cost a fortune, and some people cannot afford them. According to a

dailyfinance.com, many people have pressure to pay the treatment. However, they cannot

have a treatment only because of it cost a lot. For example, people who are having

terminal stomach cancer need to pay $31,325 in 1996. Which means that it will cost more

nowadays.

Getting stomach cancer is a social problem too. People can get cancer easily, as I

mention earlier, stomach cancer is twice as coon common as in men as women. Old

people like over 50, have more possibility of getting stomach cancer. Stomach cancers

are related to human’s life style. Such as when you are smocking, eat too salty food or

smocked food. Also, when someone get a stomach cancer less than about 40, then there is

someone in your family who had a stomach cancer before. Stomach cancer is a hereditary

disease.

Stomach cancer can be a debacle in one’s life. Stomach cancer has two one-world

issues, there are economic and social. It cost a lot of money to remedy the treatments and

stomach cancer is related to human’s life. There is a quote about a stomach cancer. “I had

bjbiss, 01/09/11,

You haven’t linked the social issue to the treatments of stomach cancer.

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? This is not a word

bjbiss, 01/09/11,

You haven’t gone into very much detail about how economics affect the treatment options….

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Not really a scientific way of putting it.

no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided

that nobody should suffer that much” said by Gertrude B.Ellon. It means that it is really

pain to have a stomach cancer, don’t make a life hard.

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