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Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University

A common stomach infection may be linked to bowel cancer – here’s what we know

_H pylori_ is already known to cause gastric cancer. Liya Graphics/ Shutterstock

A bacterium that can live quietly in the stomach for decades may have an unexpected connection with bowel cancer.

A new study estimates that exposure to Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) could be associated with more than one in five cases of bowel cancer worldwide.

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