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Stomach cancer (SC) is one of the most frequent forms of malignant tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. About one million persons develop SC annually in the world. In the Russian Federation SC is the third most common among all oncological diseases, after lung cancer and skin cancer. It is most often older people (50–60 years old) who develop SC. Up to 25% of registered SC cases fall in the age range of 40–50 years (Merabishvili 2006). The etiology of this disease still remains unknown. However, the results of experimental studies and data of epidemiological research have revealed some predisposing factors as well as precancerous states. Among predisposing factors leading to SC, there are: diet with excess of common salt provoking osmotic lesion of epithelium and facilitating contamination of mucous membrane with Helicobacter pylori bacteria, smoking, regular use of alcohol and hereditary susceptibility to carcinogenic influence. The main precancerous diseases are chronic gastritis, stomach polyposis and chronic ulcer (Gantsev 2004).
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Granov, A., Tiutin, L., Schwarz, T. (2013). Stomach Cancer. In: Granov, A., Tiutin, L., Schwarz, T. (eds) Positron Emission Tomography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21120-1_7
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