Among young people born in 2008 to 2017, 15.6 million lifetime gastric cancer cases are expected globally, with more than three-quarters attributable to Helicob ...

Researchers say about three-quarters of gastric cancer cases worldwide are caused by the common bacteria Helicobacter pylori ...

Called Helicobacter pylori the bacteria is estimated to cause just under half of all stomach cancers in the UK and although 40 per cent of Britons have it the vast majority show no symptoms.

Objective Helicobacter pylori causes life-long colonisation of the gastric mucosa, leading to chronic inflammation with increased risk of gastric cancer. Research on the pathogenesis of this infection ...

The ideal duration of therapy for H. pylori eradication is controversial, with recommendations ranging from 7 to 14 days. A proton pump inhibitor (PPI) plus two antibiotics is the most commonly used ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Atrophic gastritis (AG), also called metaplastic atrophic gastritis (MAG), is a chronic (long-lasting) inflammation of the stomach lining, which leads to the ...

H. pylori infection is causally related to non-malignant and malignant gastroduodenal diseases, such as peptic ulcer diseases, gastric cancer and gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma.