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Patients younger than 40 years with gastric carcinoma
1999-06-15
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND In the general population, Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), particularly the cagA positive strain, has been associated with intestinal-type gastric carcinoma. Gastric carcinomas are rarely observed in patients age ≤40 years. Host-related factors have been thought to be more important than environmental agents in these early-onset cancers. The aim of this study was to ascertain the possible role of H. py...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1b5ef639-abc0-572b-8a90-80571d0252a0
- DOI
- 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19990615)85:12<2506::aid-cncr3>3.0.co;2-i
