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Nottingham trial of faecal occult blood testing for colorectal cancer: a 20-year follow-up

Background Three large randomised trials have shown that screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) using the faecal occult blood test (FOBt) can reduce the mortality from this disease. The largest of ...
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Gastritis staging in clinical practice: the OLGA staging system

Background: The available classifications of gastritis are inconsistently used, possibly because none provides immediate prognostic/therapeutic information to clinicians. As histology reporting of ...
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Effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and prostaglandins on the permeability of the human small intestine.

Intestinal permeability was estimated in healthy subjects after ingestion of aspirin (1.2+1.2 g), ibuprofen (400+400 mg) and indomethacin (75+50 mg) at midnight and an hour before starting a ...
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Post-infection disorders of gut-brain interaction: results of the Rome Foundation Global Epidemiology Study

Background Post-infection disorders of gut-brain interaction (PI-DGBI) are a subset of chronic gastrointestinal disorders triggered by acute infectious gastroenteritis. These conditions impose a ...
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Vanilloid receptor-1 containing primary sensory neurones mediate dextran sulphate sodium induced colitis in rats

Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center and Veterans’ Administration Hospital, Durham, NC, USA Correspondence to: Dr C R Mantyh, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3117, Durham, NC ...
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Differential expression of microRNAs in plasma of patients with colorectal cancer: a potential marker for colorectal cancer screening

Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Correspondence to Dr J J Y Sung, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin ...
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From IPMN to invasive pancreatic cancer: new spatial insights

Early detection and interception of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remain the only realistic strategies to reduce ...
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Real-world evidence supports earlier treatment in HBeAg-positive but not HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B virus infection

In chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the central debate remains whom and when to treat. The 2025 European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs)1 ...
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Long term follow up of patients treated for Helicobacter pylori infection

1 Department of Pathology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA 2 School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA 3 ...
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The active bacterial assemblages of the upper GI tract in individuals with and without Helicobacter infection

Objective Patients infected with Helicobacter pylori develop chronic gastritis with a subgroup progressing to further complications. The role of microbiota from the oral cavity swallowed with saliva ...
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Efficacy of endoscopic screening for esophageal cancer in China (ESECC): design and preliminary results of a population-based randomised controlled trial

Correspondence to Professor Hong Cai and Professor Yang Ke, Laboratory of Genetics, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing 100142, China; drhcai{at}gmail.com, keyang{at}bjmu.edu.cn ...
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Simple non-invasive fibrosis scoring systems can reliably exclude advanced fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Background Accurate evaluation of liver fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is important to identify patients who may develop complications. The aim of this study was ...