objective(s): gastric cancer is the first and second leading cause of cancer related death in iranian men and women, respectively. gastric cancer management is based on the surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. in the present study, for the first time, the beneficial effect of saffron (crocus sativus l.) aqueous extract (sae) on the 1-methyl-3-nitro-1-nitrosoguanidine (mnng)-induced gastric c...

was held to be pathognomonic of cancer; but it has now been shown that HC1 may be absent from the stomach in many other conditions, e.g. the acute fevers, chronic gastritis, and atrophy of the gastric mucous membrane. It is still true, however, that free HC1 is far more frequently absent in cancer than in any other disease of the stomach. Without going fully into the literature, I may quote som...

We report the rare case of an elderly patient with an advanced gastric cancer arising from an upside-down stomach through a paraesophageal hiatal hernia (PEH). An 82-year-old man presented with appetite loss and anemia. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a type 1 tumor located in the middle body of the stomach. An upper gastrointestinal series and computed tomography showed organoaxial r...