Research Article

The Relationship between Eating and Lifestyle Habits and Cancer in Van Lake Region: Another Endemic Region for Esophageal and Gastric Cancers

Table 3

The distribution of tumor stage and localization according to sex in patient group.

StageTotal
Stage 0Stage 1aStage 1bStage 2aStage 2bStage 3aStage 3bStage 3cStage 4

MaleEsophagus0 (%0)0 (%0)1 (%8.3)3 (%25)3 (%25)1 (%8.3)1 (%8.3)0 (%0)3 (%25)12 (%100)
Cardia0 (%0)1 (%3.6)0 (%0)1 (%3.6)9 (%32.1)4 (%14.3)5 (%17.9)3 (%10.7)5 (%17.9)28 (%100)
Corpus0 (%0)1 (%16.7)0 (%0)0 (%0)2 (%33.3)0 (%0)0 (%0)0 (%0)3 (%50)6 (%100)
Antrum0 (%0)0 (%0)1 (%9.1)0 (%0)4 (%36.4)2 (%18.2)2 (%18.2)0 (%0)2 (%18.2)11 (%100)

FemaleEsophagus1 (%4)1 (%4)5 (%20)9 (%36)4 (%16)1 (%4)2 (%8)0 (%0)2 (%8)25 (%100)
Cardia0 (%0)0 (%0)0 (%0)1 (%6.7)6 (%40)2 (%13.3)3 (%20)1 (%6.7)2 (%13.3)15 (%100)
Corpus0 (%0)0 (%0)1 (%16.7)1 (%16.7)1 (%16.7)0 (%0)2 (%33.3)0 (%0)1 (%16.7)6 (%100)
Antrum0 (%0)0 (%0)2 (%20)1 (%10)0 (%0)2 (%20)1 (%10)2 (%20)2 (%20)10 (%100)

No relationship was found between tumor stage and localization of males and females when interpreted separately.