And cancer cells can break off from the tumor to spread throughout the body. The cells that form the tumor determine the type of stomach cancer. The type of cells in your stomach cancer helps determine your treatment options. Types of stomach cancer include: Cancer that begins in the glandular cells (adenocarcinoma).
Advance directives are legal documents that allow you to spell out your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time. They give you a way to tell your wishes to family, friends, and health care professionals and to avoid confusion later on. A living will tells which treatments you want if you are dying or permanently unconscious. You can accept or refuse medical care. A durable power of attorney for health care is a document that names your health care proxy. Your proxy is someone you trust to make health decisions for you if you are unable to do so.
A living will is a document that you sign in advance in which you specifically set forth your decisions about health care treatment. Unlike the health care proxy, however, it does not authorize you to appoint an agent to make decisions that you did not anticipate when you completed the living will.