Table 3.

Clinical and pathological characteristics of Helicobacter pylori infection‐negative gastric cancer

Mucosal atrophy by pepsinogen (PG) method	n	Sex male/female	Pathology % Well/poor	Stage % Early/advanced
No Atrophy †	15	10/5	33/67	37/63
Mild and moderate atrophy ‡	64	40/24	53/47	38/62
Severe Atrophy §	27	16/11	44/56	40/60
Total	106	66/40	46/54	38/62

^† No atrophy (–), PG I > 70 & PG I/II > 3.0;

^{‡ ‡} Mild and moderate atrophy: exclude no atrophy and severe atrophy cases;

^§ Severe atrophy, PG I ≤ 30 & PG I/II ≤ 2.0.