The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) has issued its first clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and management of gastric premalignant conditions (GPMCs) including atrophic gastritis, gastric intestinal metaplasia, dysplasia, and certain gastric epithelial polyps, all of which have an increased risk of progressing to gastric cancer.
The guideline was published online on March 12 in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
GPMCs are “common in gastroenterology practices, but in the US, at least, we’ve not had concrete guidance,” first author Douglas Morgan, MD, MPH, Division of Gastroenterology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, noted in an interview with Medscape Medical News.
With these guidelines, we hope there “will be a paradigm shift to finally establish…