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acute allergy onset-husband nearly died - anyone else developed this after sub or total gastrectomy?
Hi guys After my husband made a seemingly terrific recovery from a subtotal gastrectomy in June last year, where he had most of his stomach removed & had 12 weeks of ECX chemo - and returning to competing in triathlons earlier this year - he's done 3 races up to Olympic Distance & also smaller Club Triathlons, plus a 5km…
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Stage 4 Gastric Cancer
Hi, all, My sister is 47 years old and was just diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. She was being offered palliative chemotherapy and was given a 1 in 5 chance of surviving 1 year. With those statistics, I emailed Dr. Avital at the NIH. He is studying stomach cancer.She has been accepted into his study. My sister's care…
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life after total gastrectomy,intestinal pain after eating, food aversion, weight loss
My mom had total gastrectomy after being diagnozed with stage 3B stomach cancer in Sep 2008. Little by little after that she managed to get into an eating regimen and was doing OK. However few months ago, about 2 and 1/2 years post surgery she started experiencing some intestinal pain after eating, describing that the…
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vomiting
post partial gastrectomy may 4th. having trouble with eating. vomiting at least once a day. Not able to eat much at all. Do have a j-tube and receiving feedings. not having any trouble with dumping at this point. but the vomiting is troubling, will it get better.
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Can keep food down after Radiation/Chemo
Hello, my mom was diagnosed with stage 3.5 stomach cancer. They removed 3/4 of her stomach right away. They then started on chemo and radiation for the infected areas. Soon after treatment she was told the cancer was in remission. Since that time she can't keep any food down. It has been about two months and she has lost…