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Helicobacter pylori and risk for gastric adenocarcinoma.
Seminars in gastrointestinal disease - 1 Jul 2001
Asghar R J, Parsonnet J
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the world. Helicobacter pylori infection is now a well-accepted cause of this malignancy; in some parts of the world, up to eighty percent of all gastric cancers are at least in part caused by H. pylori infection. H. pylori infection typically starts in childhood as an inflammatory process in the stomach. The changes in the gastric microenvironment...
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