The precancerous process occurs in well-defined stages: chronic active gastritis to chronic atrophic gastritis; followed by gastric intestinal metaplasia; dysplasia; and finally, invasive carcinoma.

These include peptic ulcers, acute and atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, gastric adenocarcinoma and gastric B-cell lymphoma. Various bacterial virulence factors are associated with the ...

in a process called acinar-to-ductal metaplasia. They found epigenetic marks, but no mutations (alterations in the DNA sequence itself), on genes linked with pancreatic cancer, including two ...

nus.edu.sg Objective Intestinal metaplasia (IM) is a premalignant stage that poses a greater risk for subsequent gastric cancer (GC). However, factors regulating IM to GC progression remain unclear.

1Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany Correspondence to: P Malfertheiner Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious ...

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