Patients with GC, even when H pylori-negative at the time of the present study, may have been infected by H pylori before the onset of the disease, as confirmed by CagA and VacA seropositivity. These data reinforce the hypothesis that H pylori may be a direct carcinogenic agent of GC.
These data suggest, for the first time to our knowledge, the importance of treating with antibiotics duodenal ulcer patients whose disease is in remission.
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