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Article: Chinese scientists search for link between H. pylori and gastric cancer.
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- China Business News
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- March 27, 2008
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Chinese scientists search for link between H. pylori and gastric cancer
By Cecilia Xu Shanghai. March 27. INTERFAX-CHINA - Chinese experts are delving into a possible relationship between Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer in an effort to control and prevent the spread of the disease, an expert told Interfax yesterday.
"We have started a research program in Yangzhong City in [the eastern Chinese province of] Jiangsu to find out whether eliminating H. pylori could control or prevent gastric cancer," said Wang Xi, one of the project leaders and a senior doctor in Shanghai Changzheng Hospital's oncology department.
H. pylori is a bacterium ...