IN 1928 Sir Berkeley Moynihan 1 wrote, "Not a little of the incredulity of patients and the apathy of medical men is based upon the undisputed conviction that cancer of the stomach is incurable." When ...

Q: I was having stomach pain and some nausea. The doctor found bacteria in my stomach, and I was diagnosed with a gastric ulcer. Now I'm being told that I should get screened for stomach cancer. Is ...

Researchers have uncovered a big clue as to why some of the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers pose a greater risk for serious problems like stomach cancer than others; it turns out these bacteria can ...

A common ingredient in vegetable oils may help reduce infection with a bacterium that can cause stomach cancer and peptic ulcers, according to a study by UC San Diego scientists. More than half the ...

British scientists said on Monday they had launched a major clinical study to see whether a combination of aspirin and an anti-ulcer drug could prevent thousands of cases of cancer of the esophagus, ...

Senior gastroenterologists have warned that untreated and poorly treated stomach ulcers could deteriorate into stomach cancers. They explained that ulcers are caused by a difficult to treat bacterium, ...

Dr. Neena S. Abraham, a gastroenterologist at the Michael E. DeBakey V.A. Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, recently took readers' ...

A man has shared how he believes accidentally biting down on his tongue could have saved his life after it led to doctors spotting that the persistent ulcer he'd developed was actually a cancerous ...

A CARER was horrified to discover her “work stress” mouth ulcer was CANCER – and had a new tongue built using skin from her tattooed arm. Jessica Tappenden-Rowell noticed what she believed to be a ...