Constant tummy pain? Get it checked now
It could be stomach cancer, which kills 400 here a year; study on to improve survival rates. -ST
Fri, Nov 07, 2008
The Straits Times
By April Chong
FOR more than a year, 33-year-old Tan Teck Siah suffered from stomach pain and a bloated belly.
It was not until the fruit handler went for tests earlier this year that he discovered he had stomach cancer, a disease that kills 400 Singaporeans every year.
Mr Tan then went through surgery and a barrage of chemotherapy, responding well to the treatment.
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