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Our cancer specialists at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute expertly combine the best of clinical research with the best of patient care to deliver your best outcomes.
The renowned gastric cancer specialists at Miami Cancer Institute work to combine medical expertise and compassionate care to create the best treatment plan for each patient. Our oncologists have access to a range of cutting-edge technologies as well as multidisciplinary tumor boards to diagnose and treat your specific cancer, with the goal of creating a personalized plan that effectively treats your disease.
Our team of medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists and interventional oncologists works with each patient throughout the entire cancer journey; from diagnosis, to treatment, to post-cancer life. Each individualized cancer care plan includes the most advanced treatments and services, such as nutritional advice, as well as physical rehabilitation and pain management services, to address your whole journey as a patient. Not only do we strive to find the treatment that is right for your cancer, we also want to develop the treatment that is right for you as a patient.
Stomach cancer – also called gastric cancer – is a disease in which cancerous (malignant) cells form in the lining of the stomach. The stomach is an organ that stores and digests food before it passes into the small intestine.
Most stomach cancers are a type of cancer called adenocarcinoma, which start in the tissues that line the stomach. The three main types of stomach adenocarcinomas include:
Less-common types of stomach cancer include lymphomas, gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) and carcinoid tumors.
Some risk factors for stomach cancer can be controlled and others cannot. Some of the controllable risk factors can include:
Risk factors that cannot be controlled include:
There is no guaranteed way to prevent cancer. However, you can reduce your risk for stomach cancer by:
Our cancer specialists at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute expertly combine the best of clinical research with the best of patient care to deliver your best outcomes.
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