The Banchik Family Library and the Feldman Family Audiovisual Center provide numerous resources, including books, videos, and audiotapes on all aspects of cancer care and treatment. Both libraries contain TVs, VCRs, and computers with Internet connections. Patients are also referred to other community resources, such as physical therapists, nutritionists, and psychiatrists. Ninety-five percent of stomach cancer begins as a mutation of the cells in the glandular tissue lining the stomach. Occasionally, a tumor may develop in the lymph tissue or in the muscles of the stomach walls.
Doctors universally refer to the spread of stomach cancer by stages.
Stages 0, I, and II are early stages of cancer. Stages III and IV are more advanced. It is known as carcinoma in situ. Sometimes cancer can be in the stomach for a long time and can grow very large before it causes any symptoms. This is why only about 10 to 20 percent of stomach cancer is found before it has spread to other areas of the body.