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An inverse relation between cagA+ strains of Helicobacter pylori infection and risk of esophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma.
Cancer research - 15 Feb 1998
Chow W H, Blaser M J, Blot W J, Gammon M D, Vaughan T L, Risch H A, Perez-Perez G I, Schoenberg J B, Stanford J L, Rotterdam H, West A B, Fraumeni J F
Abstract excerpt
Gastric colonization with Helicobacter pylori, especially cagA+ strains, is a risk factor for noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma, but its relationship with gastric cardia adenocarcinoma is unclear. Although incidence rates for noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma have declined steadily, paralleling a decline in H. pylori prevalence, rates for adenocarcinomas of esophagus and gastric cardia have sharply increased in...
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