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Epidemiology of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2018
Abnet Christian C, Arnold Melina, Wei Wen-Qiang
Abstract excerpt
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) accounts for about 90% of the 456,000 incident esophageal cancers each year. Regions of high incidence include Eastern to Central Asia, along the Rift Valley in East Africa, and into South Africa. There are many causes of ESCC, which vary among regions. Early studies in France associated smoking cigarettes and heavy alcohol consumption with high rates of ESCC, but these...
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