SMJ articles in the category "gastric cancer"

Original Article

Helicobacter pylori Eradication Rates among Patients Undergoing Endoscopy Remain Stagnant Despite Evolving Clinical Practice Patterns

Objectives: Helicobacter pylori is the strongest risk factor for non-cardia gastric adenocarcinoma, the cancer with the greatest racial disparity in US cancer mortality. The 2017 American College of Gastroenterology guidelines recognized that local H pylori antibiotic resistance data are often unavailable in the United States, highlighted increasing clarithromycin resistance, and…

Posted in: antibiotics 6 ECU 2 gastric cancer 4 Helicobacter pylori 10

Original Article

Missed Esophageal and Gastric Cancers after Esophagogastroduodenoscopy in a Midwestern Military Veteran Population

Objectives: Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) with biopsy has become the standard procedure for diagnosing esophageal and gastric cancers (EGC) and is considered to have high sensitivity and specificity. To date, few studies have attempted to examine the rates of missed EGC after EGD and no study addresses the rate of missed EGC…

Posted in: esophageal cancer 4 esophagogastroduodenoscopy 3 gastric cancer 4 military veterans 2

Case Report

H. pylori-Associated Gastric Cancer in a Husband-Wife Pair: A Veritable Family Affair

Abstract:Family environment probably represents a high route of transmission for H. pylori, a bacterium associated with gastric cancer (GC). We report two cases of GC in a husband-wife pair of immigrants from Romania. The disease was first diagnosed in the wife, and three years later in her husband of 55…

Posted in: gastric cancer 4 gastritis 2 intestinal metaplasia 2

Case Report

Solitary Giant Splenic Metastasis in a Patient with Metachronous Gastric Cancers

Abstract:Splenic metastases from solid tumors are uncommon. They may be observed in a context of multivisceral dissemination or as a solitary lesion. We report the case of an 80-year-old woman with a history of two metachronous gastric cancers treated with distal gastrectomy and resection of the gastric remnant within a…

Posted in: clinical significance 3 gastric cancer 4 splenic metastasis 3
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