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Hot Beverages, Chemical Co-Exposures, and Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the African Corridor: A Margin-of-Exposure Framework
2026-06-29
Abstract excerpt
The African esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) corridor extends from Ethiopia to the Eastern Cape and contains some of the highest age-standardised ESCC incidence rates reported anywhere, with five-year survival below 5%. The corridor's heterogeneous incidence (sex ratios from 1:1 to 7:1; tenfold variation between adjacent populations) has resisted single-factor explanation through more than half a century...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6e2abb7a-7a0a-596e-9075-1ab9d8ab4790
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202606.2156.v1
