Esophageal Cancer
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2004.
World J Gastroenterol. Aug 1, 2004; 10(15): 2163-2167
Published online Aug 1, 2004. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i15.2163
Table 1 Sex ratio, average age of morbidity for EC and CC in Chaoshan littoral region (mean ± SD)
nSex ( male:female)Age(yr)FP
EC9 6357 228:2 407(3.0:1)54.61 ± 10.73103.24< 0.001
CC4 1673 442:725(4.75:1)58.14 ± 9.45
Table 2 Pathology for EC and CC in Chaoshan littoral region (%)
Site
Gross type
Histological type
UMLUTMTSTFTSCAACAUCAO
EC12.772.015.341.539.69.69.496.42.70.60.3
CC4.494.50.90.2
Table 3 Expression of Erk1/Erk2 in esophageal squamous carcinoma tissue and para-cancerous tissue (%, mean ± SD)
Normal esophagealsquamous cell (n = 5)Para-canceroustissue (n = 5)Grade I (n = 19)Grade II (n = 34)Grade III (n = 9)FP
Activated ERK1/ERK25.10 ± 1.4476.80 ± 0.1476.80 ± 0.0975.80 ± 0.0969.30 ± 0.142.600.04