I started with autoimmune gastritis, 3 years later I was diagnosed with intestinal metaplasia. Scary situation but what is important is to treat well your stomach no alcohol no spicy foods, fried foods not at all, vegetables lots of them legumes fruits in general helps the lining go the stomach so adopting to this kind of foods will be able to make the lining of the stomach good, the possibilities of this transforming into cancer is much lower. My understanding is that in general terms not too many cases get into cancer. Your doctor should follow you, my last endoscopy was in November 24 when they discovered metaplasia, my doctor suggested another endoscopy in two years I said why two years? why not In one year so I am having another one next November. One study in Europe indicated that taking with food Misoprostol two times a day reversed metaplasia in most of the cases. However this still under study. I took it, for 6 months will see now if it worked there is no downside to it check It with your doctor