But many scientists now believe it may also play a role in stomach cancer.
"H.pylori infection is now accepted as a cause of stomach cancer, " he told BBC News Online.
He died in October following a battle with dementia, kidney disease, heart disease and stomach cancer.
And rates of stomach cancer are much higher in many Asian countries, where the food is heavily salted.
The new test looks for chemical profiles in exhaled breath that are unique to patients with stomach cancer.
About 7, 000 UK people develop stomach cancer each year and most have an advanced stage of the disease.
He died at the age of 69 in September 2004 from stomach cancer.
For instance, Gleevec is also effective in a certain form of stomach cancer if a particular molecular marker is present.
Clough, who also briefly managed Hartlepool, Leeds and Brighton, died in September 2004 from stomach cancer at the age of 69.
Controversy has surrounded the decision to film the last eight months in the life of a man dying from stomach cancer.
In people who have either oesophageal or stomach cancer, a step in developing that cancer can be a condition called intestinal metaplasia.
At the oncology meeting, a big new trial showed that the drug also helps stomach cancer patients with the same gene variant.
Against that is a study of heavy chili-eaters in Mexico City, who appeared to have higher stomach cancer rates than a control group.
The runner died in 1975 at the age of 42 from stomach cancer but his brother Vic continues to train athletes in the city.
Rosenberg, whose work was inspired by a patient whose stomach cancer vanished on its own, is now expanding the method to colon and breast cancer.
Previous trials have shown Sutent extends life in patients with stomach cancer and shrinks kidney tumors--results that could put it on the market next year.
Very few participants developed esophageal or stomach cancer during the study.
One encouraging area for Afinitor is stomach cancer, which afflicts 21, 000 patients in the U.S. (and is more prevalent in Asia, where salty foods are common).
An auction raised money for Carlos Silva, a producer and engineer for Yankees games on WCBS radio since 2006, who is fighting esophageal and stomach cancer.
The researchers found that the section of genetic material associated with the cancer had expanded in a way previously linked to other cancers, including stomach cancer.
In March, NICE ruled against the use of two drugs, Lapatinib and Sutent, that prolong the life of those with certain forms of breast and stomach cancer.
Currently doctors diagnose stomach cancer by taking a biopsy of the stomach lining using a probe and a flexible camera passed via mouth and down the gullet.
Many scientists believe garlic helps prevent stomach cancer because it has anti-bacterial effects against a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, found in the stomach and known to promote cancer there.
They compared the rates of esophageal and stomach cancer in 83, 652 people, half of whom had received at least one prescription for oral bisphosphonates in the previous decade.
Prior work has shown that the precise type of bacteria responsible for lung infections or even the presence of stomach cancer could be discerned in the breath.
Eighty-nine and 92 cases of esophageal cancer were reported in the bisphosphonate and control groups, respectively, as were 49 and 57 cases of stomach cancer -- a negligible difference.
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In 2005 and 2006 he underwent treatment at a hospital in France for what the Algerian government characterized as a stomach ailment, which prompted rumors he was suffering from stomach cancer.
His vice president, Jose Alencar, died of prostate and stomach cancer in March 2011 and his current successor, Dilma Rousseff, suffered from lymphatic cancer in 2009 just prior to running for the presidency.
"This naturally-occurring cholesterol offers a very specific target for the design of safer drugs that could treat stomach ulcers and, long-term, prevent stomach cancer linked with H.pylori, " said Dr Minoru Fukuda, who led the study.
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