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At Significantly Higher Risk
• Those aged between 50 and 59.
• Twice as frequent in lower socio-economic groups in North
America and Western Europe.
• Workers in various industries—coal mining, nickel refining (in
Eastern Europe), rubber and timber processing.
• Workers exposed to asbestos fibers.
• People with pernicious anemia are 5 to 10 percent more likely to
develop gastric cancer.
• People whose diet contains smoked, highly salted and barbecued
foods. Japanese immigrants have a decreased incidence of this
cancer when they adopt an American diet and lifestyle, a tenfold
drop after two generations.