my father had went for a check up and the doctor found some polps in his colon and they were removed, when the results came in of corse (negative )so nothing to worry about right?in the mean time he was having bad cases of indegestion and heart burn he took everything you could think of still nothing would work the pain continued to get worse,so he went to his doctor and the doctor then aditted him to the hospital,by then his stomach was real swelled and he thought he was constipated,while in the hospital he underwent several series of test: mri's,cat scans,blood work,daily still they could not locate anything but the doctors knew there was a problem.my daddy's stomach continued to swell they finally had to pull fluid off his stomach to relieve the pressure.still the fluid keep coming he had to finally had to have a laxitave daily but they didnt work,he continued to get worse, and by the second week he was transported to a different hosp.once he arrived he seemed to rapidly get worse,by then he couldnt breath with out oxygen,he had a suction tube running down this throat into his stomach,he could no longer have food or drinks,it was so hard for me to see him that way, he was in so much pain,the doctors continued to run test still test after test the test were negative always negative,he also had a large mass on one of his lungs and his lungs had also srunk to the size of a tennis ball is that normal in stomach cancer? the doctor said he did not have any signs of lung cancer.my daddy and our family just wanted answers and to make him better,ON FRIDAY JUNE 2,2006 AROUND 500PM THE DOCTORS CALLED US IN THEY FOUND THE ANSWER TO OUR QUESTIONS,THE RESULTS WERE STOMACH CANCER NO CURE ,ALL I CAN REBER THE DOCTOR SAYING WAS IF HE LIVES THRU THE WEEKEND,HOW COULD THIS BE?we walked in the roo with the doctor when they handed my daddy the news he was so heart broken so was i the look on his face was the look of helplessness,i so badly wanted to take it away and ake him better. but i didnt want him to worry more than he was so all i could do was run out of the roo and cry the thoughts were hie is dying!!!you know i thought we would of had ore time but that never came he went into a coma around 3:00am on june 3,2006,I stayed with him all day and talked to him, it was so hard for me to see him this way.i told him i loved him and i prayed he could hear me and hoped he was not in anymore pain,i told him it was okay for him to go home,i then held back my tears and told him, i would be okay,(buit really i was a wreak and i was not okay)on june 3rd (the next day after being diagnosed)my dad lost his battlewith stomach cancer ,i lost a big part of myself that day.it has now been over a year and i stuggle everyday i miss him so much and i truely love him./////////and also back in 1986 my grand father on my mothers dad was diagnosed with stomach cancer the same exact type my father had!! and he lost his battle 6months after being diagnosed.....the same exact type of cancer is stomach cancer passed down and if so with 2 members havein it what are my chances of being diagnosed?