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<i>Helicobacter pylori</i>CagA Seropositivity and Gastric Carcinoma Risk in a Japanese American Population
8 Oct 2002
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Helicobacter pylori colonization is associated with gastric cancer, but whether and to what extent the risk is greater for strains with the cagA gene than for those without needs to be determined. Between 1967 and 1977, 9963 Japanese American men were recruited and examined. By 1996, incident cases of gastric carcinoma of the distal stomach had been diagnosed in 261 men. Stored serum samples from these case...
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