Ambulances Red Cross Blood Banks 24hr. Dr. Ravi Gupta, M.S. Interventional G.I.Endoscopist and Surgeon Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai Gastric cancer is basically the cancer of the stomach.
Stomach cancer is known as the captain of the man's death.
By the time it is detected, it is already too late to save the patient. Often, patients present very late with this disease. The common cause for gastric cancer is smoking and alcoholic abuse. It has been definitely linked to gastric cancer. If there is a gastric ulcer, and if a biopsy is taken and it has proved to be H. pylori infection, there are quite good chances that this ulcer may become cancerous later in course of time.