Until the late 1930s, stomach cancer-also called gastric cancer-was the leading cause of cancer death in the United States; although it is still a major cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, it is now much less common in this country.1 The following provides a brief look at this difficult-to-detect cancer.
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