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 3 Difference in proportion of histopathologic type, sex, and age group between different incident groups in Tanzania n (%)

	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	P value
Histology						0.1269
Squamous cell carcinoma	276 (92.0)	54 (98.2)	90 (89.1)	39 (90.7)	110 (86.6)
Adenocarcinoma	24 (8.0)	1 (1.8)	11 (10.9)	4 (9.3)	17 (13.4)
Sex						0.1233
Males	425 (65.6)	75 (64.7)	159 (73.6)	71 (66.4)	176 (71.8)
Females	223 (34.4)	41 (35.3)	57 (26.4)	36 (33.6)	69 (28.2)
Age group						0.1441
15-34 yr	41 (6.3)	6 (5.2)	13 (6.0)	5 (4.7)	14 (5.7)
35-44 yr	65 (10.0)	12 (10.4)	28 (13.0)	13 (12.1)	23 (9.4)
45-54 yr	110 (17.0)	16 (13.9)	46 (21.3)	33 (30.8)	41 (16.8)
55-64 yr	196 (30.3)	34 (29.6)	57 (26.4)	20 (18.7)	67 (27.5)
65+ yr	235 (36.3)	47 (40.9)	72 (33.3)	36 (33.6)	99 (40.6)

Group 1-Group 5 reflect decreasing incidence of EC by region, i.e., Group 1 were regions with highest incidence and Group 5 were regions with lowest incidence. Unknown histology and histology reports categorized as “other” were removed for histology analyses, unknown sex were removed for sex analyses, and unknown age were removed for age group analyses.

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
URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1948-5204/full/v8/i3/314.htm
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4251/wjgo.v8.i3.314