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G. Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genoa, Italy

 Helicobacter pylori cause of gastrointestinal disease in children with hemato-oncologic disease

Published in Cancer Law Weekly, August 12th, 2006

Helicobacter pylori may be the cause of gastrointestinal disease in children with cancer or following bone marrow transplantation.

According to recent research published in the journal Pediatric Blood & Cancer, "After documentation of a case of life threatening Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) gastric ulcer in an adolescent girl on treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, we started to systematically look for gastro-intestinal symptoms due to H. pylori infection in our cancer patients at G. Gaslini Children's Hospital."

"During a period of 46 months, we observed 13 further cases of severe dyspepsia syndrome or...

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