Gastrointestinal Ulcers and Cancer

Abstract

Only two of the ulcerative diseases of the gastrointestinal tract—gastric ulcer and ulcerative colitis—are forerunners of cancer, and evidence is tenuous in gastric ulcer, Statistics indicate that only 1 percent of patients with chronic gastric ulcer but 3 to 6 percent of patients with ulcerative colitis may eventually have carcinoma.