Epidemiology of gastric cancer and risk factors

Gastric cancer is, still nowadays, an important healthcare problem worldwide. In Italy, it represents the fifth tumour by frequency in both men and women over 70 years old. A crucial point is represented by the percentage of early gastric cancers usually found, which is actually very low, and it car...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ottavia, Cavatorta, Serena, Scida, Chiara, Miraglia, Alberto, Barchi, Antonio, Nouvenne, Gioacchino, Leandro, Tiziana, Meschi, Gian, Luigi de’ Angelis, Francesco, Di Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mattioli 1885 2018
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30561423
http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v89i8-S.7966
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Sumario:Gastric cancer is, still nowadays, an important healthcare problem worldwide. In Italy, it represents the fifth tumour by frequency in both men and women over 70 years old. A crucial point is represented by the percentage of early gastric cancers usually found, which is actually very low, and it carries to a worse morbidity and mortality. The most important focus in this oncological disease, is to perform an effective detection of the most common precancerous lesion linked with this neoplasia, chronic atrophic gastritis, in order to avoid the future outcome of gastric cancer itself. (www.actabiomedica.it)

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