When Samuel J. Klempner, M.D. received the $300,000 Ben Feinstein Memorial Research Scholar Award from the Gastric Cancer Foundation and the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) last year, his goal was to improve the understanding of how the disease spreads to the lining of the abdomen, called the peritoneum. One year into the three-year grant, he reports encouraging early results from his research thus far.
“We have analyzed about 25 fluid samples from stomach and esophageal cancer patients, and we’ve learned a lot,” says Klempner, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
