Gastric catastrophe: Eat right to avoid stomach cancer Can you
stomach it? I’ve learned, with my middle-aged wisdom, to learn
to be more tolerant of things that don’t quite settle well in my
stomach, such as news stations named after animals, bumper
stickers that say “Bite Me,” and Charlie Sheen. Asian people in
general have strong stomachs, which is why we can eat spicy
foods that would make The Towering Inferno seem like a mere
bonfire. However, no one is completely immune to stomach woes.
Can we detect stomach cancer soon enough? Gastric cancer is the
number-two cause of death from cancer in the world. This stomach
cancer is most prominent in Asia, parts of South America, and
Eastern Europe. It affects men more than women. On our big blue
marble in space, about 870,000 new gastric cancers are diagnosed
each year, and about 650,000 people die annually from it.
Gastric cancer is nothing new. In fact, Egyptian hieroglyphics
from 3000BC describe the disease. Although the incidence of
gastric cancer has been de