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<p>Gastric cancer is the fifth most common and third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Patients with chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) and intestinal metaplasia (IM) are at increased risk of developing gastric cancer (GC). It is common for CAG to precede IM, but the etiology of the two conditions is not always the same. Different scoring systems are used to assess HAG, MI, and GC risk, making it difficult to interpret results from investigations and management of these conditions.</p>
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Gastric cancer is the fifth most common and third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Patients with chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) and intestinal metaplasia (IM) are at increased risk of developing gastric cancer (GC). It is common for CAG to precede IM, but the etiology of the two conditions is not always the same. Different scoring systems are used to assess HAG, MI, and GC risk, making it difficult to interpret results from investigations and management of these conditions.

Current Understanding of Atrophic Gastritis and Intestinal Metaplasia as a Premalignant Lesion of Gastric Cancer

Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Research

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Gastric cancer is the fifth most common and third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Patients with chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) and intestinal...

Current Understanding of Atrophic Gastritis and Intestinal Metaplasia as a Premalignant Lesion of Gastric Cancer

Published Online: Dec 13, 2022

Page range: 118 - 122

Received: May 10, 2022

Accepted: Aug 05, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbcr-2022-0016

Keywords
chronic atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, gastric precancerous lesion

© 2022 Zornica V. Gorcheva, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Current Understanding of Atrophic Gastritis and Intestinal Metaplasia as a Premalignant Lesion of Gastric Cancer

Published Online: Dec 13, 2022

Page range: 118 - 122

Received: May 10, 2022

Accepted: Aug 05, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbcr-2022-0016

Keywordschronic atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, gastric precancerous lesion

© 2022 Zornica V. Gorcheva, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
chronic atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, gastric precancerous lesion