Gastritis staging in the endoscopic follow-up for the secondary prevention of gastric cancer: A 5-year prospective study of 1755 patients

Massimo Rugge, Alberto Meggio, Cecilia Pravadelli, Mattia Barbareschi, Matteo Fassan, Maria Gentilini, Manuel Zorzi, Giovanni De Pretis, David Y. Graham, Robert M. Genta

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Abstract

Objective: Operative link on gastritis assessment (OLGA) staging for gastritis ranks the risk for gastric cancer (GC) in progressive stages (0-IV). This prospective study aimed at quantifying the cancer risk associated with each gastritis stage. Design: A cohort of 1755 consecutive patients with dyspepsia underwent initial (T-0) oesophagogastroduodenoscopy with mapped gastric biopsies, OLGA staging and assessment of Helicobacter pylori infection. Patients were followed for 55 months (median); patients with stages II III and IV underwent a second endoscopy/restaging (T-1), and those with stages 0 and I were followed clinically and through in-depth clinical and record checking. Endpoints were OLGA stage at T-1 and development of gastric epithelial neoplasia. Results: At T-0, 77.6% of patients had stage 0, 14.4% stage I, 5.1% stage II, 2.1% stage III and 0.85% stage IV. H. pylori infection was detected in 603 patients at T-0 and successfully eradicated in 602 of them; 220 had a documented history of H. pylori eradication; and 932 were H. pylori naïve-negative. Incident neoplastic lesions (prevalence=0.4%; low-grade intraepithelial neoplasia (IEN)=4; high-grade IEN=1; GC=2) developed exclusively in patients with stages III-IV. The risk for epithelial neoplasia was null in patients at stages 0, I and II (95% CI 0 to 0.4), 36.5 per 1000 person-years in patients at stage III (95% CI 13.7 to 97.4) and 63.1 per 1000 person-years in patients at stage IV (95% CI 20.3 to 195.6). Conclusions: This prospective study confirms that OLGA staging reliably predicts the risk for development of gastric epithelial neoplasia. Although no neoplastic lesions arose in H. pylori-naïve patients, the H. pylori eradication in subjects with advanced stages (III-IV) did not abolish the risk for neoplastic progression.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalGut
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - Jan 6 2018

Keywords

  • gastric cancer
  • gastritis
  • helicobacter pylori
  • pre-malignancy - gi tract

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Gastroenterology

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