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Who develops stomach cancer?
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Multiple risk factor: Age > 50, male sex, tobacco use, eating too much salt, helicobacter pylori chronic infection, blood type a, family history.
Answered 5/25/2014
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Many factors: A variety of factors are associated with gastric cancer; low ferritin levels, pernicious anemia, surgery associated with prior ulcer disease, genetic predisposition like hnpcc, nitrates and nitrites, h pylori infection, .
Answered 6/20/2015
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