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Article: Body's own defense against H. pylori discovered.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- August 31, 2004
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2004 AUG 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An international team led by the Burnham Institute's Minoru Fukuda, PhD, has discovered that a human glycoprotein inhibits Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium that causes stomach ulcers and is linked with 90% of stomach cancers.
Published August 13, 2004, in Science magazine, these results present a new way of looking at treating chronic inflammation associated with stomach ulcers, and introduces the possibility of preventing stomach cancer associated with H. pylori.
More than 50% of the world's population is infected with H. pylori, yet only 2% are afflicted with stomach ulcers and only 1% with stomach cancer. ...