Ottavia Cavatorta
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Serena Scida
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Chiara Miraglia
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Alberto Barchi
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Antonio Nouvenne
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Gioacchino Leandro
National Institute of Gastroenterology “S. De Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Italy
Tiziana Meschi
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Gian Luigi de' Angelis
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Francesco Di Mario
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Keywords
gastric cancer, diagnosis, risk factors, epidemiology
Abstract
Gastric cancer is, still nowadays, an important healthcare problem worldwide. In Italy, it represents the fifth tumour by frequency in both men and women over 70 years old. A crucial point is represented by the percentage of early gastric cancers usually found, which is actually very low, and it carries to a worse morbidity and mortality. The most important focus in this oncological disease, is to perform an effective detection of the most common precancerous lesion linked with this neoplasia, chronic atrophic gastritis, in order to avoid the future outcome of gastric cancer itself.
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