Regarding the disease characteristics of patients, HP positive patients had higher grade cancer (OR: 3.97; 95% CI: 1.0-16.16; P=0.05), and there was a trend towards higher disease stage in HP positive patients which did not reach to a statistically significant level (OR: 4.46, 95% CI: 9.39-21.23; P=0.06). Here, HP is linked to cancer.