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Correa et al [ 29 ] have clearly shown in a large trial conducted over six years that dietary antioxidant supplementation alone (vitamin C or beta-carotene), without antimicrobial therapy, can limit the progress of gastric cancer and actually may promote regression of precancerous states.
ICD-O (International Classification of Diseases - Oncology) lists virtually no precancerous lesions [ 9 ] . The ICD-O is used by cancer registrars to annotate, in a uniform way, cases of treated malignancies.
Indeed that is a concern that has been raised following the failure of prospective antioxidant trials in smokers to limit the incidence/progression of lung cancer [ 35 ] and the recent epidemiological analysis of gastric cancer incidence and green tea consumption [ 32 ] . However, other evidence has indicated that the antioxidants, vitamin E or N-acetylcysteine, enhanced the ability of the chemotherapeutic agent 5-fluorouracil to induce apoptosis in colon cancer cells [ 36 ] . These in vitro observations are supported by the Apc minanimal model [ 32 ] and sustained clinical trial in patients with H. pylori gastritis [ 30 ] suggesting that dietary antioxidants do not exacerbate precancerous states but may indeed promote regression.
In the absence of morphologically identifiable precancerous lesions, these conditions were excluded from the classification.
In addition to its potential for detecting frank malignancy, staining for proliferation markers may also provide an estimate of the frequency of potentially precancerous conditions (metaplasia and dysplasia) in the patient's airways.
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