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Early Onset Gastric Cancer: On the Road to Unraveling Gastric Carcinogenesis
1 Feb 2007
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancer is thought to result from a combination of environmental factors and the accumulation of specific genetic alterations due to increasing genetic instability, and consequently affects mainly older patients. Less than 10% of patients present with the disease before 45 years of age (early onset gastric carcinoma) and these patients are believed to develop gastric carcinomas with a molecular genetic...
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