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Huck-Joo Tan1, Eunice Zhi-Yi Tan2
1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cengild GI Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur 50490, Malaysia. hucktanhj@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Atrophic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia may progress to gastric malignancy. Non-invasive serum biomarkers have been extensively studied and proven to be useful as a screening tool to stratify risk and identify patients for endoscopy to detect early gastric cancer. These non-invasive biomarkers have been endorsed and recommended by many international consensus guidelines. In this letter, we reviewed the literature and evidence supporting the use of serum biomarkers as a dynamic test to monitor the status of atrophic gastritis.
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