Yoshiharu Uno

In Japan, gastric cancer after eradication of H. pylori is increasing.

Gastric cancer after eradication of H. pylori is found on average 5 years after eradication.

Average age of their patients is 67 years old: younger than the group without H. pylori eradication (74 years old).

Endoscopic and Immunohistochemical Characteristics of Gastric Cancer with versus without Helicobacter Pylori Eradication.

Digestion. 2018 Mar 7;97(4):288-297. doi: 10.1159/000485504. [Epub ahead of print]

Kodama M1,2, Okimoto T2, Mizukami K2, Abe H3, Ogawa R2, Okamoto K2, Shuto M2, Matsunari O2, Hirashita Y2, Sato R4, Abe T4, Nagai T4, Arita T3, Murakami K2.

Author information

1　Faculty of Welfare and Health Science, Oita University, Oita, Japan.

2　Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan.

3　Arita Gastrointestinal Hospital, Maki-machi, Oita, Japan.

4　Oita Kouseiren Tsurumi Hospital, Beppu, Japan


Early-Stage Gastric Cancer Can Be Found in Improved Atrophic Mucosa over Time from Successful Helicobacter pylori Eradication.

Digestion. 2017;95(3):194-200.

Majima A1, Handa O, Naito Y, Dohi O, Okayama T, Yoshida N, Kamada K, Katada K, Uchiyama K, Ishikawa T, Takagi T, Konishi H, Yagi N, Itoh Y.

1 Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Why?

Gastric cancer after H. pylori eradication develops in non-elderly people

Unless this problem is solved,

it is uncertain whether H. pylori eradication for young people should promote.

Why?

Gastric cancer after H. pylori eradication develops in non-elderly people

Unless this problem is solved, observations of all persons after H. pylori eradication are necessary.