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Correlation between negative expression of pepsinogen C and a series of phenotypic markers of gastric cancer in different gastric diseases.
Cancer medicine - 1 Aug 2018
Jiang Jingyi, Shen Shixuan, Dong Nannan, Liu Jingwei, Xu Qian, Sun Liping, Yuan Yuan
Abstract excerpt
Gastric tumorigenesis is a multistep process initiated by chronic superficial gastritis (SG), followed by atrophic gastritis (AG), then intestinal metaplasia (IM), and finally by dysplasia and adenocarcinoma according to the Correa model. Pepsinogen C (PGC) decreases gradually during progression of cancer, which makes PGC an ideal negative marker for GC. To explore the correlation between PGC and other positive...
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