Background and Aims: Despite the reported salutary benefits of a Mediterranean diet (MD) on a wide variety of health conditions, the specific microbia......
Background and Aims: Surgery is recommended in early gastric cancer (EGC) after noncurative endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), although observati......
Background: Epidemiology data of gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancers in Asia are extremely scarce. It is hardly registered by any cancer registry ......
Introduction: Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection causes chronic inflammation and atrophy of the gastric mucosa and thus a high risk of gastric cancer ......
Introduction: We aimed to investigate the safety and efficacy of self-expandable metallic stent (SEMS) placement in patients with prior radiotherapy (......
Background: Rectal cancer remains a complex disease and a relevant global health issue, increasingly affecting also younger patients. This update revi......
Introduction: We evaluated the risk factors for patients with gastric cancer (GC) undergoing total gastrectomy (TG) that predict postoperative complic......
Introduction: Sodium picosulfate plus magnesium citrate is a bowel preparation agent with high patient acceptability. However, it is unclear which pat......
Background: Based on evidence that Helicobacter pylori eradication reduces the development of gastric cancer and other diseases such as peptic ulcer, ......
Introduction: Our previous study demonstrated that intrahepatic Th17 cells exacerbated the progression of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. M......
Introduction: Although endocytoscopy (EC) with narrow-band imaging (NBI) is effective in diagnosing gastric cancer, no diagnostic system has been vali......
Introduction: This study aimed to identify the characteristics of superficial non-ampullary duodenal epithelial tumors (SNADETs) based on the mucin ph......
Introduction: Fusobacterium and several bacteria are reported to be associated with colorectal cancer (CRC). However, their relationship and whether t......
Introduction: Magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging (M-NBI) is useful for determining lateral demarcation of early gastric cancers; however, t......
Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the common malignant tumors, with high mortality and poor prognosis. Our study aimed to determine the as......
