作者
Hassan Ashktorab, Zahra Nouri, Mehdi Nouraie, Hadi Razjouyan, Edward E Lee, Ehsan Dowlati, El-Waleed El-Seyed, Adeyinka Laiyemo, Hassan Brim, Duane T Smoot
发表日期
2011/12
期刊
Digestive diseases and sciences
卷号
56
页码范围
3577-3582
出版商
Springer US
简介
Background
Esophageal cancer accounts for a considerable proportion of carcinomas of the upper gastrointestinal tract in African Americans. Our aim was to describe the epidemiology of esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) among African Americans in the last five decades.
Methods
A total of 601 records of patients with documented esophageal cancer between 1959 and 2007 at Howard University Hospital were reviewed. Demographic characteristics, risk factors, clinical stage and histological findings were reviewed. The change in prevalence of the disease and the interaction between main risk factors with tumor stage of the patients were assessed over the years of this study.
Result
A total of 552 patients (91.8%) had ESCC while 49 patients (8.2%) had EA. The mean age …
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