MCQ MAHE 2000 Surgery Answer 12
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Epidemiology
- It is common!
- Slightly more in male than female, incidence increase with age
- Wide geographic variation (common in East Asia, Uncommon in N. America)
- overall incidence slowly decrease
- sharp increase in proximal gastric cancer in western countries (probably related to GERD)
Risk Factors
- DIET
- nitrosamines
- high salt
- low Vit C
- Helicobactor Pylori infection
- Smoking
- Hereditory
- Familial gastric cancer syndrome (E-cadherin gene mutation)
- Atrophic gastritis
- Pernicious anemia
- previous partial gastrectomy (so called stump cancer)
- Blood gp A
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Category: MAHE 2000 MCQs
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