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Helicobacter and gastric cancer disease mechanisms: host response and disease susceptibility.
Current gastroenterology reports - 1 Dec 2003
Li Hanchen, Stoicov Calin, Cai Xun, Wang Timothy C, Houghton JeanMarie
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter infection is the single most common cause of gastric cancer worldwide. Although infection prevention and eradication of established infection offer the potential for cure, these strategies are neither feasible nor practical for widespread implementation. Patients most at risk need to be identified and targeted for treatment. For disease to occur, bacterial, environmental, and nutritional factors...
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