9-Anemia
Anemia is a dangerous condition that can be best described as having an abnormally low quantity of red blood cells. It is extremely common for cancer patients actively undergoing chemotherapy to present unusually low red blood cell count. In the case of stomach cancer, often there is an added risk for chronic hemorrhaging, which can progressively reduce a patient’s total blood volume, and thus decrease the availability of red blood cells and hemoglobin. A nutritional iron deficit, renal failure, and bone marrow infiltration are other common factors which can induce an anemic state in cancer patients.