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 ...

This rare complication of weight loss surgery can lead to symptoms like nausea, vomiting, pain, and reflux, or have no symptoms at all. A twisted stomach, or gastric twist, can sometimes happen after ...

At 9 a.m. on September 23, the operating room at Seoul National University Hospital in Jongno-gu, Seoul, was conducting a gastrectomy to remove the upper and lower parts of the stomach in an ...

Gastrectomy is a type of major surgery to remove part or all of the stomach. Surgeons most commonly perform the procedure to treat stomach cancer. The amount or part of the stomach surgeons remove ...

The results of the first human trial examining a new weight loss procedure called gastric mucosal ablation were released Thursday, and the non-surgical procedure caused minimal side effects with a ...

Gastric cancer, or stomach cancer, is a type of cancer that begins in the mucus-producing cells on the inside lining of the stomach. The most common type of stomach cancer is adenocarcinoma.

Chemotherapy for stomach cancer can help slow the disease’s growth and control symptoms. However, it may cause some side effects. People with stomach cancer have cells in their stomach that grow ...

To discuss the growing challenge of surgery in the rapidly enlarging geriatric population, the American College of Surgeons together with The American Geriatrics Society sponsored a half-day session ...