Erschienen in:
01.10.2012 | Editorial
Gastric Cardia Cancer: How Much Is It from Fat?
verfasst von:
Preetika Sinh, Prateek Sharma
Erschienen in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Ausgabe 10/2012
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Excerpt
The overall age-adjusted incidence of gastric cancer has decreased in the United States from 11.7 to 7.1 persons per 100,000 from 1975 to 2008 according to the surveillance epidemiology and end results (SEER-9) database [
1]. Similar trends have been observed worldwide. Although the incidence of gastric non-cardia adenocarcinoma (GNCA) has decreased worldwide the incidence of gastric cardia adenocarcinoma (GCA) has steadily increased over the last three to four decades along with a rise in esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) incidence [
2,
3]. …