Cancer Risk Following Pernicious Anemia in the US Elderly Population

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Pernicious anemia, a result of autoimmune gastritis, is the most common cause of vitamin B12 deficiency, affecting 2%–5% of the elderly population. Treatment with vitamin B12 cures the anemia, but not the gastritis. Findings from small studies indicated that patients with pern...

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Published in:Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol
Main Authors: Murphy, Gwen, Dawsey, Sanford M., Engels, Eric A., Ricker, Winnie, Parsons, Ruth, Etemadi, Arash, Lin, Shih-Wen, Abnet, Christian C., Freedman, Neal D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655146/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26079040
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2015.05.040
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