Table 2.

Symptoms in Ca-esophagus and non Ca-esophagus patients

	Ca-esophagus N=55	No Ca-esophagus N=232	ORs	Conf Interval	P-value
Symptoms‡
Epigastric pain	8(15%)	162(70%)	0.074	0.02–1.69	<0.001
Vomiting	15(27%)	51(22%)	1.329	0.630–2.698	0.476
Hematemesis	1(2%)	34(15%)	0.108	0.003–2.698	0.006
Dysphagia	44(80%)	27(12%)	29.750	13.270–71.890	<0.001
Odynopagia	6(11%)	6(3%)	0.539	0.177–1.374	0.014
Heartburn	6(11%)	43(19%)	4.578	1.171–17.927	0.232
Reflux	2(4%)	5(2%)	1.709	0.158–10.793	0.623
Other symptoms*	1(2%)	18(8%)	0.221	0.005–1.461	0.138

^‡A patient can have more than 1 symptom.

^*Other symptoms included melena, chest pain, ascites, chocking, continous belching and diarrhea