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How does H. pylori infection cause gastric cancer?
The Keio journal of medicine - 1 Dec 2002
McColl Kenneth E L, El-Omar Emad
Abstract excerpt
H. pylori is now recognised to be an important co-factor in the aetiology of non-cardia gastric cancer of both the diffuse and intestinal histological type. The latter type develops via a complex multistage and multifactorial process. The fist stage involves progression from superficial gastritis to atrophic pangastritis with intestinal metaplasia and associated hypochlorhydria. This gastric phenotype may then...
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