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Metabolic Bariatric Surgery, Gastric Cancer, and Helicobacter pylori: A Portuguese Reality?

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Obesity is a major healthcare problem, increasingly affecting millions of people and immensely burdening government health budgets worldwide and being responsible for worse life expectancies and unhealthy aging. Metabolic bariatric surgery is a major treatment option for severe obesity, even though very few possible surgical candidates get an operation yearly. It is of paramount importance to raise awareness and promote early referral to multidisciplinary surgical teams. Gastric cancer is one of the most common and high-mortality cancers and is one of 13 obesity-related malignancies. Its association with Helicobacter pylori infection is increasingly recognised through several pathways related to bacterial virulence factors and host-pathogen cross-talk. This review aims to provide data of Portugal’s national reality regarding Helicobacter infection and gastric cancer in the metabolic bariatric surgery setting and its possible influence on eradication policy and surgical options.

Source: Revista Portuguesa de Cirurgia

DOI: 10.34635/rpc.1136

Author: Correia, André Lázaro

Institutions: Unidade Local de Saúde de Coimbra, Centro de Investigação em Meio Ambiente Genética e Oncobiologia, Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, University of Coimbra

Language: English

Topic: Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W7128306151

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