Bug link to cancer; Health In association with the NHS.ERADICATING a common bug in people with stomach cancer can stop the disease from coming back, researchers said. Helicobacter pylori Helicobacter pylori A gramnegative rod-shaped bacterium that lives in the tissues of the stomach and causes inflammation of the stomach lining. Mentioned in: Indigestion, Ulcers Helicobacter pylori , proved to be the cause of most stomach ulcers, has also been linked with stomach cancer. In a Japanese study of 550 people who had stomach cancer surgery, antibiotics which killed the bug cut the risk of a second cancer developing by two-thirds. There will now be a trial of 56,000 British people See :
British Overseas Territories to see if killing the bacterium stops the cancer developing. H. pylori Noun 1. H. pylori - the type species of genus Heliobacter; produces urease and is associated with several gastroduodenal diseases (including gastritis and gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers and other peptic ulcers) Heliobacter pylori lives in the stomach, and accounts for up to 90% of duodenal ulcers and up to 80% of gastric ulcers. Study leader Dr Mototsugu Kato, from Hokkaido University History Hokkaido University (Hokudai for short) was originally founded in 1876 as Sapporo Agricultural College (札幌農學校 Graduate School of Medicine, said: "We believe that our data add to those from previous studies showing a causal relationship between H. pylori infection and gastric cancer gastric cancer Stomach cancer, see there , and also support the use of H. pylori eradication to prevent the development of gastric cancer." |
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