The purpose of our study was to examine the roles of green tea drinking, other risk and protective factors, and polymorphism of susceptibility genes such as GSTM1, GSTT1, GSTP1, and p53 codon 72 and their possible joint effects on the risk of stomach cancer. A population-based case-control study was conducted in Taixing, China, including 206 newly diagnosed cases with stomach cancer and 415 hea...

PURPOSE We sought to examine associations between dietary patterns and the risk of stomach cancer mortality in a cohort study in Japan. METHODS Factor analysis on food frequency questionnaire was conducted among 25,730 males and 37,673 females in a cohort study in Japan; we identified three dietary patterns, termed "vegetable"; "animal food"; and "dairy product". The Cox proportional hazards ...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the significance of grand multiparous (GM) status in the mortality from cancers of the digestive system among a cohort of GM women in Taiwan during the period 1978-2008. The study cohort consisted of 144,922 women with at least five children (GM women) in the Taiwan Birth Register between 1 January 1978 and 31 December 2003. Standardized mortality ratios (SM...

Breast cancer metastases to the stomach are very rare. As characteristics of breast cancer metastases to the stomach, metastases of lobular carcinoma, mainly with signet ring cells, are frequently observed, and they are often difficult to distinguish from a primary gastric cancer with signet ring cells. Moreover, because no characteristic symptoms are shown and they involve a submucosal lesion,...

OBJECTIVES To review and summarise the epidemiological evidence on the carcinogenicity of occupational exposure to inorganic lead. METHODS Case-control and cohort studies were reviewed and combined for meta-analysis. Fixed and random effect methods were used to estimate the summary effects. RESULTS The combined results show a significant excess risk of overall cancer, stomach cancer, lung c...

BACKGROUND/AIM Stomach cancer is the second most common cause of death from all malignant tumors in the world (third in men, fifth in women), with a strong decreasing trend in most developed countries. The aim of this descriptive epidemiological study was to analyze mortality of stomach cancer in Serbia, excluding the Province of Kosovo, in the 1991-2009 period. MATERIALS AND METHODS In data ...

Stomach cancer remains, stubbornly, highly prevalent in East Asia. Still, stomach cancer has few biomarkers by which it can be predicted. Helicobacter pylori infection, a known carcinogen of stomach cancer, usually goes undetected prior to cancer diagnosis, due to the poor mucosal environments that its related gastric atrophy causes. We propose, herein, an endoscopic-biopsy-based cancer-predict...

Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2013 Introduction A case of thrombosis associated with a malignant tumor was first reported by Trousseau in 1865 [1], which supposedly resulted from chronic disseminated intravenous coagulation. Later, malignant tumors were found to occasionally accompany arterial or venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolisms, or non-infectious endocarditis [2,3]. Trousseau syndrome is associat...

However, the nature by which they work-reducing stomach acid-causes a number of side effects. First, when stomach acid is lowered the gastric mucosa becomes more vulnerable to certain pathogens. Salmonella, for example, is destroyed by stomach acid and lowering the levels of acid could allow this food-borne bacterium to flourish unchecked. Helicobacter pylori, another pathogen common to our dig...

Background: Lactoferrin is a glycoprotein with a molecular weight of 80 kDa, as a member of the transferring family. In recent investigations the important biological properties such as anti microbial, antiviral and anticancer activity of lactoferrin were studied. In the present study, the effect of antitumor induced by lactoferin was evaluated on stomach cancer cell AGS. Materials and Methods...