My great-uncle passed away from stomach cancer. He was the man who raised me in Romania for the first 6 years of my life and everyone kept me out in the dark about his cancer until I went to visit just before he passed- i had never been so shocked and scared in my life- it had already been about four years into his cancer and, at the age of 88 and never having been sick in his whole life, all that was left of him was bones... he couldn't really eat, he'd broken his hip when trying to walk, and he had a very hard time having a conversation with anyone. But, I didn't and still don't understand what exactly happened to him. From what I understand now, they never did any sort of chemo or radiation but yet he lived 5 years with it! It would seem that it would have been curable or treatable if had been caught so early. I don't know much about the Romanian doctors technology in the cancer area, but this is not the 80's or 90's. My main questions are:
1) Are there different types of stomach cancer or just different stages of the same cancer?
2) Are there types of it that are incurable no matter how early on they are found or is it just the refusal of doctors to care about curing the cancer of a man in his 80s, who's going to die soon anyways as far as they're concerned?
3) Could it have been something else altogether that was ignored but was the real reason he passed away in the end?