Cytokine-producing function of human blood cells in chronic atrophic gastritis and gastric adenomas and adenocarcinomas.

The cytokine-producing potential of blood cells has been studied in the atrophic gastritis-adenoma-adenocarcinoma progression of pathological states of the stomach. It has been revealed that, at the initial stage of carcinogenesis, namely adenoma, immunocompetent cells have the highest cytokine-producing proto-oncogenic potential as compared to both atrophic gastritis, which presents a precancerous condition, and completely formed malignant tumor (gastric adenocarcinoma).