Question 84 · LEK · Gastric cancer
Indicate the true statement concerning gastric cancer:
- A. females are affected twice as often as males.
- B. intestinal metaplasia does not increase the risk of the disease.
- C. early gastric cancer does not spread to lymph nodes according to its definition.
- D. treatment is mostly confined to chemo- and radiotherapy.
- E. Helicobacter pylori infection 5-fold increases the risk of the disease.
Hint
Recall the bacterium classified by WHO as a group 1 carcinogen that starts the gastritis-metaplasia-cancer sequence.
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