Gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM) is a histological finding which may identify patients at high risk for gastric cancer, the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. The most common type of gastric cancer is intestinal-type, non-cardiac, which is usually associated with chronic H. pylori infection (80% of global burden) via stepwise mucosal changes: normal mucosa → chronic gastritis → atropic gastritis → GIM → gastric adenocarcinoma.
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