Just found out a few hours ago my oldest sister has stomach cancer (detected in blood and by CT scan) and her doctor told her she would not live long. She has not seen an oncologist for staging but was having symptoms for several years and would not get it checked because she was afraid of the results. Now it is probably stage 3 or 4 (I think survival rates are 5 years less than 10% at stage 3 and rarely more than 2 years, often a lot less at stage 4).