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Gastric cancer: who is at risk?
Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2004
Zagari Rocco Maurizio, Bazzoli Franco
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancer is a multifactorial disease. Helicobacter pylori infection, host genetic factors and dietetic factors play an important role in the development of gastric cancer. Individuals with a positive family history of gastric cancer and/or pro-inflammatory polymorphisms of the interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor A genes infected by H. pylori virulent strains (cagA-, vacA s1-, vacA m1- and...
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