Stomach cancer: First signs in the mouth years before symptoms (1/2)

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Recent research presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2024 highlighted very specific conditions that could lead to a diagnosis of stomach cancer years earlier, allowing for timely treatment.

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According to the study’s authors, led by Dr. Shruthi Reddy Perati of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, this signal could be detected directly in the mouth through changes in bacterial composition. Of 98 patients examined while awaiting a gastroscopy, a third of whom had gastric cancer, those with bacteria such as Helicobacter,