Correlation of Family History of Gastric Cancer With Histopatological Characteristics of Disease in Ardabil Population

Background and aim: family history of gastric cancer (gc) in first-degree relatives may increase the risk of gc. ardabil has the highest rate of gc in iran. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship of family history of gc with histopathological characteristics of patients in the ardebil provincemethods: in this study, 1900 gc patients who were referred to the endoscopy center at imam khomeini hospital in ardebil province were investigated. of them, 178 patients had a family history of gc.results: the results showed that 61.23% of patients had gc family history in brother, 25.84% in sister, 7.86% in father, and 5.61% in mother. 67.97% of patients had intestinal type of gc. there was no significant relationship between family history of gc and histopathological characteristics (p > 0.05).conclusion: in this study, no significant association was found between family history of gc and histopathological features of the disease.