Adenocarcinoma of the Corpus and Antrum (5 of 5)

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Case description

Endoscopic view of Gastric Cáncer Helicobacter pylori infection Chronic bacterial infection with H pylori is the strongest risk factor for stomach cancer. H pylori may infect 50% of the world's population, but much less than 5% of infected individuals develop cancer. It may be that only a particular strain of H pylori, one of which is capable of producing the greatest amount of inflammation, is especially associated with the risk of malignancy. The full malignant transformation of affected parts of the stomach may require that the human host have a particular genotype of interleukin-Iβ to cause the increased inflammation and an increased suppression of gastric acid secretion. H pylori infection is associated with chronic atrophic gastritis, and patients with a history of prolonged gastritis have a 6-fold increase in their risk of developing gastric cancer. Interestingly, this association is particularly strong for tumors located in the antrum, body, and fundus of the stomach but does not seem to hold for tumors originating in the cardia.

tags: Adenocarcinoma gastric corpus antrum gastroscopy cancer

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