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01.03.2017 | Introduction
Gastric cancer: Asia and the world
verfasst von:
Takeshi Sano
Erschienen in:
Gastric Cancer
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Sonderheft 1/2017
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Excerpt
We are living in an era of unprecedented rapid change for gastric cancer. For a long time it was the commonest cancer, but its occurrence started to decline suddenly in the 1950s. The reason was unknown at first, but in any case the sharp decrease in mortality without any active measures was welcomed in the USA as “an unplanned triumph” [
1]. It is now clear that the decreasing trend in gastric cancer occurrence paralleled the decrease of
Helicobacter pylori infection. This bacterium has inhabited the human stomach since humans left Africa 58,000 years ago [
2], but its existence was revealed only recently. Its carcinogenic mechanism has been rigorously investigated in the past 20 years, and as if it were a criminal whose crime had been uncovered, it started to leave the human stomach before an eradication policy was launched. …
