Stomach cancer
Classification and external resources
A suspicious stomach ulcer that was ultimately diagnosed as cancer on biopsy and resected. The surgical specimen was subsequently kept for educational purposes.
ICD-10	C16.
ICD-9	151.9
OMIM	137215
DiseasesDB	12445
MedlinePlus	000223
eMedicine	med/845
MeSH	D013274

Stomach cancer, or gastric cancer, is a kind of cancer from any part of the stomach. Stomach cancer causes about 800,000 deaths worldwide per year. The odds of survival are 5 to 15%. The life span of someone with stomach cancer is five to fifteen years. This is because this type of cancer can spread faster than other cancers.