High impact of methylation accumulation on metachronous gastric cancer: 5-year follow-up of a multicentre prospective cohort study

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Epigenomics, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
• ² Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
• ³ Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴ Prevention Division, Center for Public Health Sciences, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Gastroenterology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁶ Second Department of Internal Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁸ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.