Getting through the days before it all kicked off -- 4.D-Day -- or should I say C-Day? -- 5. Telling the children -- 6. The op -- 7. My treatment plan -- 8. Another op ... -- PART TWO -- 9. Chemo time -- 10. Coping with chemo depression -- 11. Brain food -- ...
A 42-year-old female patient underwent total gastrectomy for gastric cancer (Borrmann's Type 3). Many rice-grain sized peritoneal metastases were observed in the transverse colon and mesenterium. The lesion was diagnosed as stage IV cancer and the degree of radical cure was determined to be C...