Health and Medical Guide to Digestive System Stomach Cancer Health information topics about Stomach Cancer: Clinical Trials 1. ClinicalTrials.gov: Stomach Neoplasms National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D013274&recruiting... Diagnosis/Symptoms 1. How Is Stomach Cancer Diagnosed? American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_3x_how_is_stomach_cancer_... 2. How Is Stomach Cancer Staged? American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_3x_how_is_stomach_cancer_... 3. Upper Endoscopy National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/upperendoscopy/ 4. Upper GI Series National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/uppergi/index.htm Dictionaries/Glossaries 1. Cancer.gov Dictionary National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/ Directories 1. Find a Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Doctor American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy http://www.askasge.org/pages/find/find.cfm 2. GI Physician Locator American College of Gastroenterology http://www.acg.gi.org/patients/phylocator.asp National Institutes of Health 1. Gastric Cancer (PDQ): Treatment National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/treatment/gastric/patient/ 2. What You Need to Know about Stomach Cancer National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/wyntk/stomach Organizations 1. National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/ 2. American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/ Overviews 1. Stomach Cancer Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00301 2. Stomach Cancer American Academy of Family Physicians http://familydoctor.org/817.xml Prevention/Screening 1. Gastric Cancer (PDQ): Screening National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/screening/gastric/patient/ 2. Stomach Cancer Questionnaire Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention http://www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu/hccpquiz.pl?func=d_start&cancer_list... 3. What Are the Risk Factors for Stomach Cancer? American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_2x_what_are_the_risk_fact... 4. Gastric Cancer (PDQ): Prevention National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/prevention/gastric/patient/ Related Issues 1. What Should You Ask Your Doctor about Stomach Canc American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_5x_what_should_you_ask_yo... 2. Ten Questions to Ask Your GI Endoscopist American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy http://www.askasge.org/pages/tenquest.cfm 3. Stomach Polyps Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=AN00133 4. Helicobacter pylori and Stomach Cancer Cleveland Clinic Foundation http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/1800/1816.asp?index=... Research 1. Do We Know What Causes Stomach Cancer? American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_2x_do_we_know_what_causes... 2. What's New in Stomach Cancer Research and Tre American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_6x_whats_new_in_stomach_c... Statistics 1. What Are the Key Statistics for Stomach Cancer? American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_are_the_key_stati... Treatment 1. Treatment Choices by Type and Stage of Stomach Can American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_4x_treatment_choices_by_t...   Recommended Resources: Yahoo! News: Medications/Drugs News Medications/Drugs News FDA considering changes to risky drug safeguards (Reuters) Reuters - Safeguards to protect patients from risky drugs should have less paperwork and more consistency, drugmakers and pharmacy representatives said this week during a U.S. Food and Drug Administration meeting. 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