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Risk for gastric cancer in people with CagA positive or CagA negative Helicobacter pylori infection.
Gut - 1 Mar 1997
Parsonnet J, Friedman G D, Orentreich N, Vogelman H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: It is not known why some people with Helicobacter pylori infection develop gastric cancer whereas others do not. Whether the CagA phenotype of H pylori infection affected risk for cancer independently of other posited risk factors was evaluated. SUBJECTS: 242 persons who participated in a previous nested case-control study of gastric cancer. 179 (90 cases and 89 controls) were infected with H...
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