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Review article: Immunological determinants that may affect the Helicobacter pylori cancer risk.
Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics - 1 Feb 1998
Blanchard T G, Czinn S J
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A large body of literature supports a role for Helicobacter pylori as an environmental factor which contributes to the development of gastric cancer through an intermediate stage of atrophic gastritis. The mechanism(s) by which H. pylori-associated chronic inflammation progresses to more serious diseases such as peptic ulcer and gastric cancer in certain individuals is not clear. Variations in the phenotype or...
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