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Headline Gastric Cancer News 
Following Lifestyle Recommendations Reduces Risk of Cancer Death
People who follow the diet and lifestyle recommendations laid out by the WCRF and the AICR have a 20 percent reduced risk of dying from cancer.
Second-Line Docetaxel Improves Survival in Esophageal and Gastric Cancer
Second-line treatment with docetaxel improves overall survival of patients with advanced esophageal and gastric cancer.
Cancer Deaths on the Decline
Overall cancer death rates are declining and cancer incidence has decreased in men and stabilized in women.
Gastric Cancer Tips
Living Wills Every competent adult has, in most cases, the freedom to accept or refuse...
What is Caregiving and Who are Caregivers? Caregivers are individuals who provide...
Women who confront a cancer diagnosis before beginning or completing their families...
Gastric Cancer Management
Inspiration, Hope & Resources
Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation Jon Albert, founder of the Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation shows the...
Moving Bodies, Changing Lives Moving On Aerobics helps women regain joy of movement and physical fitness after...
Where Kids Can Be Kids… And Cancer Takes a Back Seat Cancer camps for kids provide fun and camaraderie for children facing down a cancer...
Gastric Cancer Clinical Trials
USOR06054 – A Randomized Phase II Study of Docetaxel in Combination with Oxaliplatin with or without 5-FU or Capecitabine in Metastatic or Locally Recurrent Gastric Cancer previously untreated with Chemotherapy for Advanced Disease (GATE Study)
Z9001 – A Phase III Randomized Double-blind Study of Adjuvant STI571 (Gleevec) Versus Placebo in Patients Following The Resection of Primary GastroIntestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST)
REFMAL39 – A Phase I, Open-Label, Dose-Escalation Study of SB-715992 Administered Weekly for Three Consecutive Weeks of 28-Day Cycle in Patients with Solid Tumors




