Stomach Cancer Awareness Month

November is Stomach Cancer Awareness Month

November, is a month known for the pleasure of eating, is the ideal month to raise awareness about gastric cancer. There is a great deal of focus on food, nourishment, and family at this time of year, and that can be challenging for people dealing with stomach cancer, and for those living without a stomach.

In 2010, NSFC successfully championed and celebrated the first official Stomach Cancer Awareness Month in the U.S. Additionally, the Surgeon General has committed to making Thanksgiving Day National Family History Day, emphasizing the importance of knowing one’s hereditary risks for disease, clearly one of the risk factors for stomach cancer.

November is Stomach Cancer Awareness Month, however, raising awareness about stomach cancer is important all throughout the year!

Stomach Cancer Awareness Month Goals:
The goals of stomach cancer awareness are to:

  1. Raise awareness and support efforts to educate people about stomach cancer, including risk factors, prevention, and early detection
  2. Recognize the need for additional funding and research into early diagnosis and treatment for stomach cancer
  3. Raise funds for stomach cancer research
  4. Encourage people and interested groups and organizations to observe and support Stomach Cancer Awareness Month through appropriate programs and activities to promote public awareness of, and potential treatments for, stomach cancer
  5. Empower everyone by uniting the caring power of people worldwide affected by stomach cancer
  6. Supporters hope that greater awareness and knowledge will lead to earlier detection of stomach cancer, which is directly associated with higher long-term survival rates, and that money raised for stomach cancer research will result in better detection, treatments, improved survival rates, and ultimately a cure for this deadly disease.


All info from: https://www.nostomachforcancer.org/get-involved/stomach-cancer-awareness-month

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