Clinical and epidemiologic variations of esophageal cancer in Tanzania

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World J Gastrointest Oncol. Mar 15, 2016; 8(3): 314-320
Published online Mar 15, 2016. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v8.i3.314

Table 2 Characteristics of esophageal cancer patients at Ocean Road Cancer Institute, Tanzania by histopathologic types n (%)

	Squamous cell carcinoma (n = 569)	Adenocarcinoma (n = 57)	P value
Sex			0.7338
Male	382 (67.1)	37 (64.9)
Female	187 (32.9)	20 (35.1)
Age group			0.1702
15-34 yr	34 (6.0)	4 (7.0)
35-44 yr	64 (11.2)	1 (1.8)
45-54 yr	111 (19.5)	9 (15.8)
55-65 yr	139 (24.4)	15 (26.3)
65+ yr	221 (38.8)	28 (49.1)
Treatment			0.1349
Radiation	170 (29.9)	16 (28.1)
Chemotherapy	13 (2.3)	4 (7.0)
Both	263 (46.2)	22 (38.6)
None	123 (21.6)	15 (26.3)

Unknown histology and histology reports categorized as “other” were removed for this analysis.

Citation: Gabel JV, Chamberlain RM, Ngoma T, Mwaiselage J, Schmid KK, Kahesa C, Soliman AS. Clinical and epidemiologic variations of esophageal cancer in Tanzania. World J Gastrointest Oncol 2016; 8(3): 314-320
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4251/wjgo.v8.i3.314