Distance to Health Care Facilities, Lifestyle Risk Factors, and Stage at Diagnosis in relation to Geographic Pattern of Esophageal Cancer in Tanzania, 2006–2016

<table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Demographic characteristics</td><td class="align_center">Mean</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Average age</td><td class="align_center">58.54</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Sex</td><td class="align_center"><svg height="8.8423pt" id="M3" style="vertical-align:-0.2064009pt" version="1.1" viewbox="-0.0498162 -8.6359 11.0475 8.8423" width="11.0475pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,0,0)"><path d="M822 650H589L583 622C660 617 677 607 674 561C672 534 664 481 647 390L600 137H596L273 650H126L120 622C176 620 194 615 207 594C221 571 225 557 214 504L161 257C141 166 129 112 121 85C108 42 83 30 29 28L23 0H260L266 28C193 33 173 42 176 89C178 122 186 172 202 255L256 527H259L583 -8H612L690 390C708 481 720 535 728 558C744 603 756 619 816 622L822 650Z"></path></g></svg> (percent)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"> Male</td><td class="align_center">1301 (68.04)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"> Female</td><td class="align_center">611 (31.96)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Modifiable behaviors</td><td class="align_left"></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"> Tobacco usage only</td><td class="align_center">160 (9.99)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"> Alcohol usage only</td><td class="align_center">219 (13.67)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"> Alcohol and tobacco usage</td><td class="align_center">639 (39.89)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"> Neither tobacco or alcohol usage</td><td class="align_center">584 (36.45)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Histopathology</td><td class="align_left"></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"> Squamous cell carcinoma</td><td class="align_center">1146 (90.67)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"> Adenocarcinoma</td><td class="align_center">118 (9.34)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Demographics, risk factor, and histopathology of esophageal cancer cases from Ocean Road Cancer Institute.</div>

Journal of Cancer Epidemiology

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Table 2: Distance to Health Care Facilities, Lifestyle Risk Factors, and Stage at Diagnosis in relation to Geographic Pattern of Esophageal Cancer in Tanzania, 2006–2016 

Table 2 | Distance to Health Care Facilities, Lifestyle Risk Factors, and Stage at Diagnosis in relation to Geographic Pattern of Esophageal Cancer in Tanzania, 2006–2016 