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01-08-2021 | Endoscopy | Letter to the Editor
A De Novo Gastric Cancer 1 Year After Sleeve Gastrectomy—Is Bariatric Surgery a Risk Factor for Gastroesophageal Cancer Development?
Authors:
Khosrow Najjari, Hossein Zabihi Mahmoudabadi, Hamidreza Zand, Mohammad Talebpour
Published in:
Obesity Surgery
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Issue 8/2021
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Excerpt
Bariatric surgeries for the treatment of morbid obesity are increasing. Bariatric surgery reduces the incidence of hormone-related malignancies, such as endometrial, breast, and colon cancers [
1]. On the other hand, gastroesophageal cancer after bariatric surgery has been rarely reported over the last few years, even though obesity is one of the risk factors for gastric cancer [
2]. In particular, gastric cancer after SG has only been reported a few times so far [
3‐
13]. …