Did you ever get a reply? I have just been diagnosed with GERD, oesophagitis and chronic gastritis with "prominent" intestinal metaplasia in the stomach on one biopsy smaple, altjhough he only took 2 in total. My specialist says not to worry about it and have a repeat gastroscopy in 3 years when he will do extensive biopsies. He led me to believe that the risk of developing stomach cancer, while increased, is still small and that further biopsies can safely wait 3 years to be done. My concern is that since he only did a couple of biopsies, can he be sure it is IM, and can he be sure tht if it is IM, that there is no area of dysplasia.
