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- At Significantly Higher Risk
- • Those aged between 50 and 59.
- • Twice as frequent in lower socio-economic groups in North America and Western Europe.
- • Workers in various industries—coal mining, nickel refining (in Soviet Europe), rubber and timber processing.
- • Workers exposed to asbestos fibers.
- • People with pernicious anemia are 5 to 10 percent more likely to develop gastric cancer.
- • People whose diet contains smoked, highly salted and barbecued foods. Japanese immigrants have a decreased
- incidence of this cancer when they adopt an American diet and lifestyle, a tenfold drop after two generations.
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