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Chronic cigarette smoke exposure masks pathological features of <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> infection while promoting tumor initiation
2024-08-07
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Chronic infection by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the most prominent gastric cancer risk factor, but only 1-3% of infected individuals will develop gastric cancer. Cigarette smoking is another independent gastric cancer risk factor, and H. pylori- infected smokers are at a 2-11-fold increased risk of ga...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f36a4455-ec04-5bc6-8479-11e3db053d6e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.08.05.604297
