25. Clinicopathologic analysis on 13 823 carcinomas of esophagus and cardia in Chaoshan littoral of China

Background: Chaoshan is the close region and Chaoshan people who came from old Changan and Henan thousands years ago are relative isolation population with high-risk of esophageal carcinoma (EC) and cardiac carcinoma(CC) in China. However there were no report about detail clinicopathologic data of cancer of esophagus and cardia in Chaoshan district before. Methods: The data of age, sex. ABO blood type and X-ray or pathological diagnosis of the patients with carcinoma of esophagus or cardia were collected from The tumor hospital. The First affiliated hospital, The Second affiliated hospital of Shantou University Medical College, the Center hospital of Shantou and the populalion hospital of Jieyang. In this study. Clinicopathologic data of 9 650 patients with EC and 4 173 patients with CC in Chaoshan population were analyzed. Results and Conclusion: The male to female ratio was 3∶1 in EC and 4.75∶1 in CC, indicating EC and CC was more common in the male than in the female. The average affected age of EC was 54.61 year old. CC was 58.14 year old. The most common affected site of esophageal carcinoma was the middle third of esophagus(72.00%); the second was the lower third (15.30%). The main gross type of esophageal carcinoma was ulcerative type (41.50%); the medullary type ranks second (39.60%). In histological types of EC, squamous cell carcinoma accounted for overwhelming majority(96.44%).