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Table 2 Hazardous and habits characteristic of patients

From: Risk factors associated with esophageal cancers, diagnosed at tertiary level in Afghanistan: a descriptive cross-sectional study

Variables

 

SCC = 180

AC = 60

  

Number (%)

Number (%)

 

Smoking

No

150 (83.3%)

51 (85%)

Yes

30 (16.7%)

9 (15%)

Smoking duration

Up to 10 year

13 (50%)

5 (38.4%)

More than 10 year

13 (50%)

13 (61.6%)

Oral snuff using

No

119 (66.1%)

36 (60%)

Yes

61 (33.9%)

24 (40%)

Duration of snuff using

Up 10 years

5 (8.9%)

4 (13.8%)

More than 10 years

51 (91.1%)

25 (86.2%)

Alcohol drinking

No

178 (98.9%)

58 (96.7%)

Yes

2 (1.1%)

2 (3.3%)

Hot tea drinking habit

No

65 (36.1%)

23 (38.3%)

Yes

115 (63.8%)

37 (61.7%)