Chronic HBV infection remains a major global health burden, with current antiviral therapies effectively suppressing viral ...

We read with great interest the article of Ratziu and colleagues, who evaluated the potential of thrombospondin-2 (TSP2), insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7, CD163 and growth differentiation ...

Background Endometriosis is a debilitating gynaecological disorder with an elusive pathogenesis. While gut microbiota dysbiosis has been implicated, the causal role of gut-peritoneum microbial ...

Background Depending on the colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme, a colonoscopy should be performed within 1–3 months ...

Background The prevalence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is rapidly increasing with high ...

9 Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, Wigan, UK Background Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) is a ...

1 Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research (CENTER), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Correspondence to Professor Michael Camilleri, Clinical Enteric Neuroscience ...

13 Department of Surgery, University Surgical Cluster, National University Health System, Singapore 18 Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan ...

Correspondence to Dr Yanlei Ma, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China; yanleima{at}fudan.edu.cn Objective The incidence of early-onset ...

Background Chronic stress is a known risk factor for cancer metastasis. However, the underlying mechanisms, particularly ...

Objectives As part of the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) SURVMARK-2 project, we provide the most recent estimates of colon and rectal cancer survival in seven high-income ...

Correspondence to Professor Jingmei Jiang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, ...