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La inflamacion y su papel en el desarrollo del cáncer gástrico
Inflammation and its Role in the Development of Gastric Carcinoma
(Acta Medica Cnstarricense Vol 51 (2):76-82, abril-junio 2009, 2009-04)
La infección por Helicobacter pylori produce, en algunos pacientes, inflamación crónica en el estómago, gastritis atrófica y cáncer gástrico. Los mecanismos moleculares que conducen de la infección a la inflamación crónica ...
Association of interleukin-1B and interleukin-1RN polymorphisms with gastric cancer in a high-risk population of Costa Rica
(Clinical and Experimental Medicine 5 p.169-176, 2005-09-13)
Several risk factors have been associated with gastric cancer, among them Helicobacter pylori infection. This bacterium yields inflammation, the degree of which depends on the bacterial strain and the severity of the host ...
Helicobater pylori. ¿Es posible la erradicación?
Helicobater pylori. Is the eradication posible?
(1999)
Objetivo:
Erradicar H. pylori en pacientes dispepticos
de una población de alto riesgo de cancer
gástrico
Poblacion y metodos:
A 174 pacientes dispepticos, de una
poblacion de alto riesgo de cancer gastric°, se
les ...
In vivo Nitrosoproline formation and other risk factors in Costa Rican Children from high-and low-risk areas for gastric cancer
(1993)
The hypothesis that intragastric synthesis of N-nitroso compounds (NOC) in early life could play a role in gastric carcinogenesis was tested by applying the N-nitrosoproline (NPRO) test to about 50 children living in high- ...
National cancer registry, 1980-1983
(1988)
Legislation making cancer a notifiable disease
was introduced in Costa Rica in 1976. At the same
time, a National Tumour Registry was established,
and collection of data commenced in March 1977.
The aims of the National ...
Antibodies to Helicobacter pylori in dyspeptic patients, asymptomatic adults, and children from Costa Rica
(1995-06-30)
An enzyme immunoassay for the detection of serum IgG antibodies to H. pylori whole bacterial sonicate was used in a study of dyspeptic adult patients (n=165), apparently healthy blood donors (n=154), and children (n = 66) ...
Exposure to N-nitrosamines and other risk factors for gastric cancer in Costa Rican children
(1991-04-01)
The hypothesis that endogenous chemical nitrosation in the normal stomach in early life
could play a crucial role in inducing chronic atrophic gastritis/intestinal metaplasia in
later life was tested by applying the ...
Dieta de escolares costarricenses en zonas de alta y baja incidencia de cáncer gástrico, 1989
(1992)
Se compare el consumo de alimentos de niños escolares y
algunos hábitos alimentarios de las familias de poblaciones
de Turrubares y Hojancha de Costa Rica.
Se encontró que los niños en Hojancha, población de
baja ...
Identificación histológica de Helicobacter pylori por los métodos de tinción de Warthin-Starry y Gimenez en biopsias gástricas
(1996)
Forty-nine patients (20 men and 29 women)
were investigated for Helicobacter pylori tinfection.
All patients had dyspeptic problems
and underwent gastroscopy at the Max Per-
Alta Hospital, Cartago. They were examibed
by ...
X-ray screening seems to reduce gastric cancer mortality by half in a community-controlled trial in Costa Rica
(British Journal of Cancer 97, p. 837 – 843, 2007-10-02)
X-ray screening of gastric cancer is broadly used in Japan, although no controlled trial has proved its effectiveness. This study evaluates the impact of an X-ray screening demonstrative intervention to reduce gastric ...