Gastric Cancer: An Epidemiological Overview

Gastric Cancer Immunotherapy: An Overview

Gastric adenocarcinoma is the third most common cancer and the second most common cause of death due to cancer worldwide. Surgery is still the major prognostic factor for gastric cancer. Patients who could not be resected have a poor prognosis with survival ranging from 3 to 11 months. There is evidence that surgical operations can cause a variety of immunological disturbances in man both in vi...

Epidemiological Changes of Gastric Cancer

The current model of gastric carcinogenesis comprises the interaction of multiple risk factors. Besides Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection as the major risk factor for gastric carcinogenesis, environmental factors (e.g. high salineor nitrosamine-containing food) and genetic susceptibility contribute to the development of gastric cancer (GC). It has been established that the topographical...

An overview of the epidemiological evidence linking diet and cancer.

Cigarette smoking: an epidemiological overview.

The detailed mortality and morbidity statistics on smoking tend to conceal the overall impact of the habit on health. About 3 million people die each year from smoking in economically developed countries, half of them before the age of 70. Cancers of eight sites are recognized as being caused by smoking--lung cancer almost entirely and the others (upper respiratory, bladder, pancreas, oesophagu...

Epidemiological review of gastric cancer in educational hospitals of Birjand University of Medical Sciences (2006-2011)

Background and aims: Gastric cancer is one of the most common cancers all over the world and is the world's second fatal cancer. This study was done to identify the epidemiological features and risk factors of gastric cancer in different regions of Birjand. Such study can be an effective step in preventing, controlling and curing the diseases. Methods: Th...