Helicobacter pylori infection affects at least 50% of the world population. The chronic
inflammation caused by H. pylori can progress to pre-malignant gastric lesions,
gastric adenocarcinoma and gastric MALT lymphoma. The widespread high
prevalence of H. pylori explains that gastric cancer remains the fourth most common
cancer and second leading cause of cancer related death worldwide. For these
reasons, data on epidemiology and screening and surveillance options for gastric
cancer in patients with H. pylori-associated malignancies may lead to a reduction in
gastric cancer mortality.
In the first chapter the aims and outline of this these are described.
In the second chapter of this thesis we describe a pilot study on the association
between H. pylori susceptibility and genetic factors.http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/20708/100903_Capelle%2C%20Lisette%20Geraldine.pdf
No comments:
Post a Comment