Preventing Stomach Cancer in East Asia: Developing Markers to Identify Individuals at Highest Risk for Targeted Helicobacter Pylori Eradication - Meira Epplein, Duke University

Preventing Stomach Cancer in East Asia: Developing Markers to Identify Individuals at Highest Risk for Targeted Helicobacter Pylori Eradication

Gastric cancer is the second deadliest cancer in the world, and incidence and mortality rates are highest in East Asia. Duke’s Meira Epplein discusses how she utilized new H. pylori multiplex serology to increase numbers of sero-positive results to six H. pylori proteins offered a possible new biomarker panel for gastric cancer risk in among urban men living in Shanghai, China.