Celiac And Stomach Cancer

[Fiddle-Faddle]

Hi, I saw this on Comcast today:

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Read carefully. Any comments????

[MySuicidalTurtle]

I would hope DNA testing in the future wouldn't turn out like how it did in the mvie Gattaca.

[eKatherine]

Funny, it redirected me to the front page the first time I clicked the link.

[Fiddle-Faddle]

I thought it interesting that one of the people who underwent the stomach surgery mentioned that she could eat cabbage, but still had a hard time digesting white bread. Hello, haven't ANY of these people ever heard of celiac????????!!!!!

[Ursa Major]

For anybody who follows this link: It will bring you to the main site, you have to click on the left on 'Health News' to get to the article.

Well, what caught my eye is, that 'white bread is hard to digest', and another said that ice cream is giving her trouble!

Sounds to me like they have a gene causing celiac disease, which causes stomach cancer in the end. Maybe this gene is another, as yet unidentified celiac disease gene?

My mother's mother died of stomach cancer when my mother was 20. And my mother (who had all the same symptoms as me) died at the age of 66 of liver cancer. And my dad, who also had celiac disease symptoms (now that I understand I recognize them) died of liver cancer at the age of 74. Neither of them drank, a glass of wine or champagne on a special occasion, or a bottle of beer (for my dad) about once every two weeks was all they ever had.

Will I now say I have a gene for liver cancer? Not likely. But if I wouldn't have found out about celiac disease now, and went on the gluten-free diet, I would likely have met the same fate as my parents or my grandmother.

Most of my seven siblings (if not all) have digestive problems. All but one deny it is possible they have celiac disease, as they don't want to give up their bread. I am very afraid they will all end up dying of cancer sooner or later, just like our parents. That idea frightens me, but I can't force them to get tested!

[jerseyangel]

My computer has been down for a while--broken electric circut--but I saw this earlier. I kind of thought the same thing when I read about the white bread vs cabbage! I wonder if they will check for a Celiac connection.

[ravenwoodglass]

I kind of thought the same thing when I read about the white bread vs cabbage! I wonder if they will check for a Celiac connection.

Of course not. In fact I am sure the doctors would be strongly against it. If it was found that the family was actually celiac and had organs removed for nothing can you imagine the law suits.

[Girl Ninja]

I'm friends with one of the families that has the gene. The diet they have to follow after the stomach is removed is very restricted. No red meats, very few spices, avoid raw vegetables, nothing carbonated, avoid dairy. Whenever we had sandwiches there they were on Lavash bread. I think they believed yeast was the issue, but it's possible that gluten is just really hard on the intestines.

[Fiddle-Faddle]

I'm friends with one of the families that has the gene. The diet they have to follow after the stomach is removed is very restricted. No red meats, very few spices, avoid raw vegetables, nothing carbonated, avoid dairy. Whenever we had sandwiches there they were on Lavash bread. I think they believed yeast was the issue, but it's possible that gluten is just really hard on the intestines.

It also said that they were started on a bland diet. White bread toast has always been the basis of a bland diet...BRAT diet, too (Bananas, rice , applesauce, and toast).

[jerseyangel]

Of course not. In fact I am sure the doctors would be strongly against it. If it was found that the family was actually celiac and had organs removed for nothing can you imagine the law suits.

(Hitting myself on the side of the head)--Of course--I didn't think of that

[eleep]

This was on the front page of the local paper this morning -- I only had time to scan it, but I'm glad someone's posted about it because my only thought was -- "Wow -- if this isn't the ultimate example of treating the symptom and not getting to the underlying cause".

Having said that, I'm not sure whether this particular cancer is related to celiac or not -- anyone with more of a medical background able to weigh in on this?