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Factors associated with oesophageal cancer in Soweto, South Africa.
Cancer of the oesophagus was a rare disease in the South African black population until the last few decades. Increases in incidence have occurred and at present it is the commonest cancer in black men in many parts of South Africa. A case-control study of 200 oesophageal cancer patients and 391 hos...
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1988
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2246810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3219281 |
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author | Segal, I. Reinach, S. G. de Beer, M. |
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description | Cancer of the oesophagus was a rare disease in the South African black population until the last few decades. Increases in incidence have occurred and at present it is the commonest cancer in black men in many parts of South Africa. A case-control study of 200 oesophageal cancer patients and 391 hospital controls has been carried out in order to determine the risk factors in the urban black population of Soweto. The results indicate that the cancer patients were long-term urban residents from a very low socio-economic group. The association between smoking pipe tobacco and oesophageal cancer previously noted in South Africa is confirmed. In addition, consumption of traditional beer was found to be a major risk factor. |
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spelling | pubmed-22468102009-09-10 Factors associated with oesophageal cancer in Soweto, South Africa. Segal, I. Reinach, S. G. de Beer, M. Br J Cancer Research Article Cancer of the oesophagus was a rare disease in the South African black population until the last few decades. Increases in incidence have occurred and at present it is the commonest cancer in black men in many parts of South Africa. A case-control study of 200 oesophageal cancer patients and 391 hospital controls has been carried out in order to determine the risk factors in the urban black population of Soweto. The results indicate that the cancer patients were long-term urban residents from a very low socio-economic group. The association between smoking pipe tobacco and oesophageal cancer previously noted in South Africa is confirmed. In addition, consumption of traditional beer was found to be a major risk factor. Nature Publishing Group 1988-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2246810/ /pubmed/3219281 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Segal, I. Reinach, S. G. de Beer, M. Factors associated with oesophageal cancer in Soweto, South Africa. |
title | Factors associated with oesophageal cancer in Soweto, South Africa. |
title_full | Factors associated with oesophageal cancer in Soweto, South Africa. |
title_fullStr | Factors associated with oesophageal cancer in Soweto, South Africa. |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors associated with oesophageal cancer in Soweto, South Africa. |
title_short | Factors associated with oesophageal cancer in Soweto, South Africa. |
title_sort | factors associated with oesophageal cancer in soweto, south africa. |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2246810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3219281 |
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