According to the National Cancer Institute Researchers and colleagues have examined new cancer in young white adults, while rates in all other American adults have declined and the chances for developing stomach cancer are still very low in young adults while all rates in all other American adults have declined. There were 39,003 cases detected in a surveillance program that covers about one fourth of the U. S population. It focused on lowerstomach cancer not cancer of the upper stomach, which has been linked with gastric reflux. A senior investigator at he U. S National Cancer Institute said "We confirmed what had been previously understood about gastric cancer, that in most groups it has been declining over the last 30 years". Dr. Jaffer A. Ajani, an oncologist in the Department Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology at the University of Texas M. D Anderson Cancer Center and co author of an accompanying journal editorial said, "One possibility is that these are Eastern Europeans, who have come to the United States. Eastern Europeans have gastric cancer in different places. My personal opinion is that it is just among Eastern Europeans". A strategic director for cancer occurrence at the American Cancer Society said, "This probably needs further investigation. Anything that occurs in the younger age group indicates a burden in the future. So, it is important to find out what is contributing to this increase so you can avert the future cancer burden."
In U. S men, stomach cancer is among the top 10 most common cancers in blacks, Asian Americans, Hispanics and American Indians and it's also among the most common cancers in Asian American women. It may be noted that the report is published in the May 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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