Globally, gastrointestinal cancers represent more than one-fourth of all cancer incidence
and one-third of cancer-related mortality. Although there has been much progress in …

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is well known to be associated with the development
of precancerous lesions such as chronic atrophic gastritis (AG), or gastric intestinal …

Blood group A was found to be associated with gastric cancer in the 1950s. Strikingly, for
peptic ulcers an increased risk has been shown for blood group O. However, previous …

The effect of beta‐carotene supplementation on cancer incidence has been investigated in
several randomized controlled trials. The objective was to review the effect of beta‐carotene …

Despite its decreasing trend in Japan, gastric cancer remains an important public health
problem. Although the age standardised rates of gastric cancer have been declining for …

Background Data on genetic susceptibility to sporadic gastric carcinoma have been
published at a growing pace, but to date no comprehensive overview and quantitative …

Mutations of the APC tumor suppressor gene are found frequently in gastric adenomas, but
only rarely in gastric cancers; this is clearly different from the similar frequencies of APC …

Background: Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with variable clinical outcomes,
including gastroduodenal diseases, and genetic factors may be relevant in this process …

Abstract Helicobacter pylori-(H. pylori) play a role in the pathogenesis of gastritis, gastric and
duodenal ulcers as well as gastric cancer. A possible involvement of outer membrane …

Abstract Information on 217,174 microscopically diagnosed cancers diagnosed in 2001–
2002 was collected from pathology laboratories in 68 districts across India. Data collection …