Relationship between site of oesophageal cancer and areca chewing and smoking in Taiwan

Among 309 male patients, those who had heavily consumed betel and tobacco were more likely than nonchewers (OR=2.91; 95% CI=1.36–6.25) and nonsmokers (OR=2.49; 95% CI=1.02–6.08) to develop cancer in the upper and middle third of the oesophagus, respectively; the effects of alcohol did not dominate in any third.

• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  British Journal of Cancer

• Publication date

  2003-09-30

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601251PMID 14520446PMCID 2394300
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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