Around 4,200 Canadians are diagnosed with stomach cancer each year.
It’s a rare cancer with no screening programs, so people are often diagnosed at an advanced stage – including Frank Marshall who lives in Halifax.
“I had a huge tumour … a 13-centimetre tumour, and there was other cancer in the stomach as well,” said Marshall. “It was devastating when I heard that.”
The 82-year-old has lived a healthy life, so he was shocked when he received the diagnosis in August 2023.
“The doctors gave me a year. I was in fourth stage cancer. I didn’t realize that at the time, but I sort of thought, when you look back and see the problems I was having with swallowing and that sort of thing, I believe the cancer was there for a while,” said Marshall.
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