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Table 2 Characteristics of patients and controls

From: No role for glutathione S-transferase genotypes in Caucasian esophageal squamous cell or adenocarcinoma etiology: an European case–control study

Characteristics

Patients

  

Controls

 

ESCC

EAC

EC

 

Number (%)

106* (24.1%)

327* (74.3%)

440* (100%)

592

Age (yrs; mean ± SD)

64.4 ± 10.5

64.9 ± 11.2

64.8 ± 11.1

63.4 ± 11.9

Gender

    

  Male

67* (63.2%)

281 (85.9%)

348 (79.0%)

478 (80.7%)

  Female

38* (35.8%)

46 (14.1%)

84 (19.1%)

114 (19.3%)

  1. *Note that for 7 patients data on the exact tumor type are missing, whereas for 1 patient the gender is unknown.
  2. ESSC esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, EAC esophageal adenocarcinoma.
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