IL1B and gastric cancer: El-Omar et al. 24 have identified the inflammatory profile of genetic polymorphisms in the genes for IL-1β (IL-1B -511*T) and IL-1ra (IL-1RN*2/2) to increase the risk of developing gastric cancer.17 In our population there was 40.6% of short allele carriers diagnosed with cancer but no statistical difference to predict the disease was observed (Table 4).