Research Article
Evidence of High-Risk Human Papillomavirus in Esophageal Cancer in East Azerbaijan Province, Northwest of Iran
Table 1
The description of gender, age, and HPV positivity in case and control samples.
| | Cancer samples (case) | Noncancerous samples (control) | value | Total, N = 70 | EADC, N = 35 | ESCC, N = 35 | Total, N = 70 |
| Gender | Female | 31 (44.28%) | 15 (42.85%) | 16 (45.71%) | 34 (48.57%) | 0.611 | Male | 39 (55.71%) | 20 (57.14%) | 19 (54.28%) | 36 (51.42%) |
| Age, years | ≤50 | 41 (58.57%) | 22 (62.85%) | 19 (54.28%) | 30 (42.85%) | 0.063 | >50 | 29 (41.42%) | 13 (37.14%) | 16 (45.71%) | 40 (57.14%) | Mean age | 51 ± 17.8 | 49.97 ± 15.11 | 52.08 ± 20.45 | 56.77 ± 18 |
| HPV | + | 20 (28.57%) | 6 (17.14%) | 14 (40.0%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0.0001 | _ | 50 (71.42%) | 29 (82.85%) | 21 (60.0%) | 70 (100.0%) |
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HPV, human papillomavirus; ESCC, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; EADC, esophageal adenocarcinoma.
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