5/7/08

Clear Helicobacter pylori can reduce the risk of getting gastric cancer

Clinical Tumor Institute of Beijing University epidemiological research study confirmed that the removal of stomach of Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer can precancerous lesions and the incidence of gastric cancer risk reduction of 40%. The results have been well-known international academic journals in the U.S. "Cancer Research" magazine published by the international community tumor great concern.

By the Beijing University Institute of Epidemiological Research Center of Clinical Oncology Professor Cheng Yu-wei led the research team and Pathology, digestion and the United States Department of the National Cancer Institute, in view of the risk factors of gastric cancer, since 1995, in Shandong Province Lin Quxian Adult high incidence area of gastric cancer in 3400 launched a Helicobacter pylori infection to block removal of precancerous lesions in the stomach cancer for more than seven years of randomized intervention study. The results showed that removal of Helicobacter pylori infection can effectively reduce chronic atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, Shaped hyperplasia, and other precancerous lesions and the incidence of gastric cancer. And the placebo group, the removal of Helicobacter pylori in the above-mentioned group of precancerous lesions and the risk of gastric cancer decreased by 40%. One group of Helicobacter pylori infection cleared in 19 cases of gastric cancer, 27 cases in the placebo group. The study is currently the world's stomach cancer for precancerous lesions in the intervention test samples of the largest, longest studies, for the prevention of stomach cancer has provided an important scientific basis.

Gastric cancer in the world is still the high incidence of cancer, ranking all kinds of cancer death in second place. The study showed that the removal of Helicobacter pylori infection is to reduce the incidence of gastric cancer an important means.

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