Endoscopic Gastric Cancer Screening and Surveillance in High-Risk Groups
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Endoscopic Gastric Cancer Screening and Surveillance in High-Risk Groups
Gastric cancer remains a major cancer problem world-wide and future incidence will likely increase due to rapidly aging population demographics. Population-based screening is being undertaken in Korea and Japan, where gastric cancer incidence rates are high, and seems to be effective in reducing mortality from gastric cancer. However, such strategies are difficult to implement in countries with...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Endoscopy
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2234-2400,2234-2443
DOI: 10.5946/ce.2014.47.6.497