Relationship between site of oesophageal cancer and areca chewing and smoking in Taiwan

Among 309 male patients, those who had heavily consumed betel and tobacco were more likely than nonchewers (OR=2.91; 95% CI=1.36–6.25) and nonsmokers (OR=2.49; 95% CI=1.02–6.08) to develop cancer in the upper and middle third of the oesophagus, respectively; the effects of alcohol did not dominate i...

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Autores principales: Wu, M-T, Wu, D-C, Hsu, H-K, Kao, E-L, Lee, J-M
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2003
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2394300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14520446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601251
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spelling pubmed-23943002009-09-10 Relationship between site of oesophageal cancer and areca chewing and smoking in Taiwan Wu, M-T Wu, D-C Hsu, H-K Kao, E-L Lee, J-M Br J Cancer Epidemiology Among 309 male patients, those who had heavily consumed betel and tobacco were more likely than nonchewers (OR=2.91; 95% CI=1.36–6.25) and nonsmokers (OR=2.49; 95% CI=1.02–6.08) to develop cancer in the upper and middle third of the oesophagus, respectively; the effects of alcohol did not dominate in any third. Nature Publishing Group 2003-10-06 2003-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2394300/ /pubmed/14520446 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601251 Text en Copyright © 2003 Cancer Research UK 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/.
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Wu, M-T
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Relationship between site of oesophageal cancer and areca chewing and smoking in Taiwan
title Relationship between site of oesophageal cancer and areca chewing and smoking in Taiwan
title_full Relationship between site of oesophageal cancer and areca chewing and smoking in Taiwan
title_fullStr Relationship between site of oesophageal cancer and areca chewing and smoking in Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between site of oesophageal cancer and areca chewing and smoking in Taiwan
title_short Relationship between site of oesophageal cancer and areca chewing and smoking in Taiwan
title_sort relationship between site of oesophageal cancer and areca chewing and smoking in taiwan
topic Epidemiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2394300/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601251
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