Sho Asonuma, Waku Hatta, Tomoyuki Koike, Hideki Okata, Kaname Uno, Wataru Iwai, Masashi Saito, Makoto Yonechi, Daisuke Fukushi, Shoichi Kayaba, Ryosuke Kikuchi, Hirotaka Ito, Jun Fushiya, Ryuhei Maejima, Yasuhiko Abe, Masashi Kawamura, Junya Honda, Yutaka Kondo, Naohiro Dairaku, Shusuke Toda, Kenta Watanabe, Kiichi Takahashi, Hiroharu Echigo, Yasuaki Abe, Hiroyuki Endo, Tomoki Okata, Tatsuya Hoshi, Kenji Kinoshita, Madoka Kisoi, Tomohiro Nakamura, Naoki Nakaya, Katsunori Iijima, Atsushi Masamune
BACKGROUND AND AIM: We previously identified that ever-smoking and severe gastric atrophy in pepsinogen are risk factors for synchronous gastric cancers (SGCs). This study aimed to determine the association of alcohol drinking status or alcohol-related genetic polymorphism with SGCs and also stratify their risk. METHODS: This multi-center prospective cohort study included patients who underwent endoscopic submucosal dissection for the initial early gastric cancers at 22 institutions in Japan...
April 16, 2024: Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology