Surgery is an effective treatment and possible cure for stomach cancer. However, it may require permanent changes to your eating habits. Stomach cancer (or gastric cancer) is a fairly common cancer.

Patients with early-stage gastric cancer may consider stomach-preserving surgery, as it led to better quality-of-life and nutritional outcomes in a study. Stomach-preserving surgery may improve ...

Getting older can make surgery more hazardous. bluedog studio/ Shutterstock Getting older makes surgery more hazardous. This is largely because as we get older, frailty increases – meaning our body’s ...

Today, many abdominal surgeries are performed with minimally invasive techniques. Nevertheless, important, life-saving operations in the abdomen still involve major surgery. Following these surgeries, ...