Rarely: Peptic ulcers and stomach cancer are both caused, in part, by helicobacter infection. A stomach cancer may present as an ulcer. A bona fide peptic almost never turns into cancer.
Answered 10/16/2017
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Hp -Pud-CA in some: H. pylori infection can lead to chronic gastritis, atrophy of mucosa, and fibrosis with intestinal metaplasia, this change increase risk of Cancer, in addition genetic susceptibility contributes.H.pylori is strongly linked to gastric cancer and is now classified as a group I carcinogen.Of interest H. pylori infection may protect against esophageal adenocarcinoma through reduction in gastric acid
Answered 4/6/2019
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