Abstract:than oesophageal cancer (0.735 vs. 0.900, p < 0.001). Inflammatory scores in GOJ cancers were lower than in gastric cancer and higher than in oesophageal cancer. Conclusion This study provides direct evidence for marked differences in the gastric mucosal phenotype in the patients with oesophageal versus gastric non-cardia cancer, with the former being healthy and uninflamed, but the latter atrophic and inflamed. The background gastric mucosa of GOJ cancer supported them being two distinct aetiologies, one grou… Show more
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