Open AccessEastern European and Asian-born populations are prone to gastric cancer: an epidemiologic analysis of foreign-born populations and gastric cancer
Author(s) -
Shria Kumar,
Alejandro Mantero,
Cindy Delgado,
Barbara Dominguez,
Nadine Nuchovich,
David S. Goldberg
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.886
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1792-7463
pISSN - 1108-7471
DOI - 10.20524/aog.2021.0640
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , cancer , demography , epidemiology , population , helicobacter pylori , adenocarcinoma , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
The highest incidence of gastric cancer is in East Asia, corresponding to a high prevalence of Helicobacter pylori ( H. pylori ), yet other regions with a similarly high prevalence of H. pylori have lower cancer rates. Foreign-born persons who immigrate to the United States are thought to remain at high-risk for gastric cancer, but this has not been confirmed by large population-based studies.